John Osborne's Quotes
Born: 1929-12-12
Profession: Playwright
Nation: English
Biography of John Osborne
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
Tags: Confidence, ExpertsDon't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
Tags: Architecture, Hard, OldHeaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Tags: Age, Heaven, LoveHeroes, 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.
Tags: God, May, WhateverI never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
Tags: Shock, Walk, WrongIt is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
Tags: Answer, Easy, QuestionsIt is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
Tags: Character, May, TrueIt is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Tags: Desire, Indeed, WineWhy do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
Tags: Book, Sunday, WhyHere 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.
Tags: Alone, God, RockThe 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 sex.
Tags: Sacrifice, Sex, Time