John Osborne Quotes

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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…
• They spend their time looking forward to the past.
• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
• In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
• 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…
• Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
• There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs
• Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
• 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…
• I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
• It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
• Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
• 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.
• Yes, I loved her. I was in love with her, whatever that may mean.

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