The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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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 generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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