Alex Smith

“We met it with love,' he cries, as if love were some all-purpose antibiotic, which to Geoffrey it probably is.”
― Alan Bennett, Bed Among the Lentils

“I'm even a fool at the flower arrangement. I ought to have a Ph.D. in the subject the number of classes I've been to but still my efforts show as much evidence of art as walking sticks in an umbrella stand.”
― Alan Bennett , Bed Among the Lentils

“Then the school chaplain offered a prayer, lecturing God on the many unprecedented challenges that face today's young people. God must have heard this sort of thing before, he's probably as bored with it as the rest of us.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Indeed, the life of facts proved no bad substitute for the facts of life.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between