Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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