I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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 think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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