To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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