Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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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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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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