Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTYou have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
ALAN BENNETTThe Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETT