Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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