Alan Bennett Quiz

As usual, identify the play and the speaker:

  1. The crowd has found the door into the secret garden. Now they will tear up the flowers by the roots, strip the borders and strew them with paper cups and broken bottles.
  2. I’ve never heard him called Mr Britten before. Mr Britten. Makes him sound like a body-builder.
  3. If you want to learn about Stalin, study Henry VIII. If you want to learn about Mrs Thatcher, know about Hollywood.
  4. I heard somebody say we were waiting for Wood. He seems very unpunctual. They were waiting for him yesterday.
  5. She was in a very real sense the tallest writer I have ever known. Which is not to say that her stories were tall. They were not. They were short.
  6. If all my operas are concerned with the loss of innocence, well, in this one the innocence is – the old man’s.
  7. – Everywhere one looks, decadence. I saw a bishop with a moustache the other day.   –  It had to come.
  8. I count examinations, even for Oxford and Cambridge, as the enemy of education.
  9. Which is man and which is myth ? Is this fact or is it lies ? What is truth and what is fable ? Where is Ruth and where is Mabel ?
  10. Mais les chaussures, monsieur, pas sur le lit. Et vos pantalons, s’il vous plait.

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