Alan Bennett cytaty
„Życie jest jak otwieranie puszki sardynek. Wszyscy szukamy klucza.”
Alan Bennett Beyond the Fringe
Life, it's rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of us looking for the key. <br class="br">Źródło: Beyond the fringe http://books.google.pl/books?ei=g5m4TKTFGc-UswaD37HZDQ&ct=result&id=zzxAAAAAIAAJ&dq=Life%2C+it%27s+rather+like+opening+a+tin+of+sardines.+We+are+all+of+us+looking+for+the+key+Bennett&q=Life%2C+it%27s+rather+like+opening+a+tin+of+sardines.+We+are+all+of+us+looking+for+the+key, Random House, 1963, s. 79.
Alan Bennett: Cytaty po angielsku
"Kafka in Las Vegas", p. 335 (1987).
Writing Home (1994)
Alan Bennett Forty Years On
Act 1, p. 56.
Forty Years On (1972)
Alan Bennett Forty Years On
Act 2, p. 80.
Forty Years On (1972)
"The Pith and its Pitfalls", p. 384 (1981).
Writing Home (1994)
"Russell Harty, 1934 – 1988", p. 52 (1988).
Writing Home (1994)
"Kafka in Las Vegas", p. 336.
Writing Home (1994)
Diary entry for July 25, 1985, p. 144.
Writing Home (1994)
Alan Bennett Forty Years On
Act 2.
Bennett is often credited with having coined the pun "snobbery with violence", though he himself pointed out in Writing Home (1994), p. 199, that the phrase had been used by Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk in 1932 as the title of a pamphlet.
Forty Years On (1972)
“I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil.”
Diary entry for August 9, 1985, p. 290.
Writing Home (1994)
"The Pith and its Pitfalls", p. 384 (1981).
Writing Home (1994)
Diary entry for November 11, 1981, p. 117.
Writing Home (1994)
Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, October 30, 2004. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/10/30/dl3003.xml <br class="br">When asked by Sir Ian McKellen, in 1997, whether he was heterosexual or homosexual.
"The Pith and its Pitfalls", p. 385 (1981).
Writing Home (1994)
"Kafka in Las Vegas", p. 347.
Referring to Max Brod
Writing Home (1994)
“Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?”
Alan Bennett Forty Years On
Act 2, p. 75.
Of the Bloomsbury group.
Forty Years On (1972)
Diary entry for October 13, 1984, pp. 137-138.
Writing Home (1994)
“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
Diary entry for June 7, 1985, p. 143.
Writing Home (1994)
Getting On, Act 1 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9oQ7ixhMOvoC&pg=PT78&lpg=PT78&dq=%22six+of+them+left+in+the+Serengeti+National+Park%22&source=bl&ots=TH3N9i4L0i&sig=Os09ib4PvAEbQ3RjCJeh-R3j4Kk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dp5sU9yYHcPH7Aa7uoCABQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22six%20of%20them%20left%20in%20the%20Serengeti%20National%20Park%22&f=false.
