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.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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