So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTOnce I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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