Alan Bennett Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Artist, Parent

  Alan Bennett (2016). “A Private Function”, p.165, Faber & Faber

• Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Parent, Assuming

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.82, Faber & Faber

• The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

  Alan Bennett

  Dad, Journey, Weather

  Alan Bennett (2009). “A A Life Like Other People's”, p.80, Faber & Faber

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