John Osborne Quotes

• There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn’t threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

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• Don’t clap too hard-it’s a very old building.

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  Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week’s. Different books same reviews.

   

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• They spend their time looking forward to the past.

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• 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 s*x.

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• It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

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  It is not true that drink changes a man’s character. It may reveal it more clearly.

   

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  It is easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

   

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  In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

   

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• I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don’t walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

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  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.

   

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• 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.

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• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

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• Go on – but don’t think you can kill my confidence. I’ve had experts doing it for years.

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• Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

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John Osborne (15)

Birth:	12th December, 1929
Death:	24th December, 1994
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Screenwriter

About

John James Osborne was born in London, England. He was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. He wrote several plays include: Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Luther, The World of Paul Slickey, Under Plain Cover, Inadmissible Evidence, A Patriot for Me, A Bond Honoured, A Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez, and Déjàvu. He wrote several films include: The Entertainer, Tom Jones, Inadmissible Evidence, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (TV film). His role in several films include: First Love, The Chairman's Wife, Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Comes, and Flash Gordon. He wrote several memoirs, including A Better Class of Person and Almost a Gentleman.

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