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Alan Bennett Quotes

English - Dramatist | May 9, 1934 -

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Life Nobody Glass Watching Side

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Book Classic Everyone Read Thinks

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

Style End Feeling Late Find Now

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

Education Love Great Architecture Go

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Control Free Expression Favour Kept

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Cancer Illness Like Other Bore Any

My films are about embarrassment.

Embarrassment About Films

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Children Now Grass Ground Closer

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Mind Try Write Resolve Out Things

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

Community People Small Trying Rules

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Children Me Humanity Never Off Soon

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

New More Old Than Labour Very

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