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Other Quotes by Alan Bennett
- Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
- Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
- I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on…
- Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
- I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it…
- Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle