You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
ALAN BENNETTKnowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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