Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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