Quotes by : Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur they recur.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope....

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking....

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that....

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but....

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

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