233 Quotes by Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

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

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

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 nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.