There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTWhy is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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