"At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'."

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Alan Bennett

#Doubt Quotes #Steps Quotes #Coats Quotes

“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”

Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco
“Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

Source : J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36
“Armies are not only for offensives.”
“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'”
“No power can withstand divine Love.”
“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”
“Phin spared a moment of sympathy for Frank until he looked back and saw him at the bar, leaning into Cleaâ€™s cleavage. Get a grip, Frank, he thought, and then he looked down Sophieâ€™s dress and thought, Never mind, Frank.”

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