Quotes by : Alan Bennett

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass,....

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in....

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly....

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have....

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for....

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without....

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for....

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise,....