Quotes by : Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur they recur.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

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

Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?” “I beg your pardon, ma’am?” “In church. Everybody....

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

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

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

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

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

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