One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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