It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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