The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
ALAN BENNETTThe nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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