You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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You 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.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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