Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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