The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTI’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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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.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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