Duty Quote by Alan Bennett Download Open image “One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.” — Alan Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duty Pleasure Responsibility
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it.… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
