I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTThe masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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