I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less… — Alan Bennett Book Copy Share Image
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you… — Alan Bennett Action Copy Share Image
“I would have thought," said the prime minister, "that Your Majesty was above literature." "Above literature?" said the Queen. "Who is above… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall,… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
“ . . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of… — Alan Bennett Catholics Copy Share Image
“The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth… — Alan Bennett Librarian Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Beautiful Copy Share Image
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the… — Alan Bennett Blue Copy Share Image
“BURGESS How do you like Moscow? CORAL Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives… — Alan Bennett Three sisters Copy Share Image
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. — Alan Bennett History Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Care Copy Share Image
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas… — Alan Bennett Directors Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't… — Alan Bennett Book Copy Share Image
“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the… — Alan Bennett Architecture Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no… — Alan Bennett Exam Copy Share Image
“Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for… — Alan Bennett Football Copy Share Image
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett Establishment Copy Share Image
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class… — Alan Bennett Books Copy Share Image
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Academic Copy Share Image
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