Top 100 Alan Bennett Quotes (2025 Update) [Page 3]

101. “She found that after she had written something down, she was happy. Happy as if she had been reading. And it came to her again that did not want to simply be a reader. A reader was next door to being a spectator where as when she was writing she was doing. And doing was her duty.”

— Alan Bennett

102. “A few years ago she never would have noticed what Norman was doing. Or anyone else either. And if she took note of it now it was because she knew more of people’s feelings than she used it. And could put herself in someone else’s place.”

— Alan Bennett

103. “Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

— Alan Bennett

104. “Thus it was that the dawn of sensibility was mistaken for the onset of senility.”

— Alan Bennett

105. “One has given one’s white-gloved hand to hands that were steeped in blood and conversed politely with men who have personally slaughtered children. One has waded through excrement and gore; to be Queen, I have often thought the one essential item of equipment a pair of thigh-length boots.”

— Alan Bennett

106. “She had always been good at duty until she started reading.”

— Alan Bennett

107. “Shut up this minute, you silly little creatures...”

— Alan Bennett

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