Alan Bennett Quotes

The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

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.

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.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.

Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.

I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.