Enthusiasm Want Quotes by 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

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

— John Osborne

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

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

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

— John Osborne

Yes, I loved her. I was in love with her, whatever that may mean.

— John Osborne

“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

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

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

“To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.”

— 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…

— John Osborne

“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

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