Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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