You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETTReading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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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 was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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 suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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