Civilization Quote by Alan Bennett

“The closest she got to pretence was politeness.”

— Alan Bennett

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

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

— Alan Bennett

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

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

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

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

— Alan Bennett

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

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

— Alan Bennett

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

“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

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which…

— Alan Bennett