Alan Bennett Quotes

"I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not."
-Alan Bennett

"No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off."
-Alan Bennett

"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere."
-Alan Bennett in Life quotes.

"Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key."
-Alan Bennett in Life quotes.

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

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

"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

"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters."
-Alan Bennett

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