It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett 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
“It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett 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 the play… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
