Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTYour whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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