Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

Alan Bennett's Popular Quotes

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

- Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

- Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

- Alan Bennett

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

- Alan Bennett

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and…

- Alan Bennett

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one …

- Alan Bennett

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished…

- Alan Bennett

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

- Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

- Alan Bennett