Alan Bennett Quotes
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Children, Now)
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: People, Community, Rules, Trying)
"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Famous, Memories, Will)
"My films are about embarrassment."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Embarrassment)
"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Life, Key)
"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Life)
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Land, Sea)
"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Control, Expression)
"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Mind)
"Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have."
- Alan Bennett
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Children, Parents)
"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Cancer, Illness)
"If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging."
- Alan Bennett
"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Life)