18 Alan Bennett Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alan Bennett

English Dramatist

Born: May 9, 1934

About Always Life Me Myself You

Related authors: Christopher Marlowe Harold Pinter John Ciardi John Heywood Thomas Dekker Thomas Holcroft Tom Stoppard William Shakespeare

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement. Alan Bennett

Sense Imagination Otherwise Must Some Allowed Excitement Feel Loses Leeway Trusted Wonder Use Teachers Teaching Need

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

Seen Meets Point Except Never None Shore Where Land Sea

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

Life Key Looking Like Box

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with. Alan Bennett

Life Myself You People Writing Too Complain Find More Through Had Written Wrong Stuff Perhaps Know Look Read Comfort Closely Died Quite May After Public

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. Alan Bennett

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. Alan Bennett

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. Alan Bennett

History Will Sit Stage Action Back Address Out Find Able Ado More Instance Prose Adventurous Like Talk Make Reader Without Audience Boy Always Doing Go Up Than Any Being Break Turn Then Suddenly

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated. Alan Bennett

Feel Underestimated Always

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. Alan Bennett

Love Education Great Achievement Architecture Sense Ways Out Some Only Fact Had Clear Great Sense Idea Academic Fallen Go Intellectual Left Began Oxford Wanted After Apart Certainly Many Even Why University