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John Osborne Quotes |
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Type: Playwright Quotes Category: English Playwright Quotes Date of Birth: December 12, 1929 Date of Death: December 24, 1994 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: John Osborne Related Authors: Edward Bond Noel Coward Peter Shaffer Laurence Housman John Webster David Hare Christopher Fry |
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
John Osborne Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years. John Osborne Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage. John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. John Osborne Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. John Osborne I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. John Osborne In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. John Osborne It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones. John Osborne It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. John Osborne It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. John Osborne There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. John Osborne They spend their time looking forward to the past. John Osborne Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews. John Osborne |
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