“Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. (...) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Jimmy: They all want to escape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all,love. It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.It takes… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
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… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Alison: I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on. Cliff: You're too young to… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it.… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
