The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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