Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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