John Osborne Quotes
"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."
- John Osborne
(Related: God, Universe)
"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
- John Osborne
(Related: Books)
"They spend their time looking forward to the past."
- John Osborne
(Related: Time, Past)
"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."
- John Osborne
(Related: Success, Failure, Waiting)
"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 sex."
- John Osborne
(Related: Time, Sex, Sacrifice, People, Beliefs, Careers, First)
"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
- John Osborne
(Related: Desire, Man, Will, Wine)
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
- John Osborne
(Related: Love, London, Scandal, Tea)
"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."
- John Osborne
(Related: Building, Old)
"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."
- John Osborne
(Related: God, Ideas, Heroes, May)
"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
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
- John Osborne
(Related: Age, Love, Heaven, Man)
"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."
- John Osborne
(Related: Confidence, Experts, Years)
"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
- John Osborne
(Related: Questions)