Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTOf course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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