“Schoolmaster: But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.”
Act 2, p. 78.
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Forty Years On is a 1968 play by Alan Bennett. It was his first West End play.
Act 2, p. 80.
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Act 1, p. 56.
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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)
“Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?”
Act 2, p. 75.
Of the Bloomsbury group.
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