Alan Bennett Quotes - Page 2

History is just one fucking thing after another.

. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.

Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

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

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.