My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTYou must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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