John Osborne Quotes
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If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
— George Osborne
Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.
— 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
Jimmy: The injustice of it is almost perfect! The wrong people going hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying! — John Osborne
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
— John Osborne
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
— John Osborne
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
— John Osborne
Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman.
— 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
Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.
— John Osborne
Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay
— John Osborne
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
— John Osborne
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
— John Osborne
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
— 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
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
— John Osborne
A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.
— John Osborne
Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
— John Osborne
There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.
— John Osborne
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
— John Osborne
Marriage is rather a silly habit.
— John Osborne
If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.
— John Osborne
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.
— John Osborne
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
— 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
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
— John Osborne
