Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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