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 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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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 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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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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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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