Alan Bennett Quotes

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

Trying, Small, Off

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

Control, Free, Expression

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
Alan Bennett

Try, Flower, Activity

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

Children, Ground, Grass

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan Bennett

Children, Parents, Lives

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

Book, Everyone, Often

My films are about embarrassment.
Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Alan Bennett

Cancer, Illness, Bore

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

Mind, Try, Write

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

Sea, Point, Seen

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett

Life, Happens, Elsewhere

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
Alan Bennett

Life, Looking, Key

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

Famous, Someone, Else

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

Children, Humanity, Put

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

Life, Whole, Nobody

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 9, 1934

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