Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
ALAN BENNETTThe best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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