To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTBooks generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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The 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.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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