I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETTI have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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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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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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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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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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