Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTCulminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The 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.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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