It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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