Alan Bennett - People Quotes

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Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

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Dr Sillitoes's got him on tablets for depression…A lot of better-class people get it apparently.

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Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?

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Biography is all about cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint pot.

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Of Sidney and Beatrice Webb:
Two of the nicest people if ever there was one.

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When people are on their best behaviour they aren't always at their best.

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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.

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You are thirty-two. You are rapidly approaching the age when your body, whether it embarrasses you or not, begins to embarrass other people.

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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

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