Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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