Quotes by John Osborne

John Osborne

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

Butchers

Refined

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 respect me.

Hatred

Majority

Triumph

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Dog

Thinking

Writing

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Censorship

Fear

Self

Don’t be afraid of being emotional. You won’t die of it.

Atheism

Emotional

Positive Atheism

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

Architecture

Building

Old Buildings

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Order

Writing

Years

Go on – but don’t think you can kill my confidence. I’ve had experts doing it for years.

Confidence

Thinking

Years

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.

Atheism

Rocks

Simple

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.

Demise

Hero

Ideas

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Age

Alive

Answers

Architecture

Atheism

Betrayal

Bisexual

British

Building

Butchers

Censorship

Character

Children

Confidence

Courses

Cry

Death

Decay

Demise

Doe

Dog

Dying

Easy

Educator

Emotional

Fear

Filling In

Filth

Giving Up

Gold

Grace

Habit

Hatred

Heaven

Hero

Human Beings

Humans

Ideas

Laughter

London

Long

Looking Forward

Love

Majority

Marriage

May

Men

Need Love

Needs

Old Buildings

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Quotes by John Osborne

John Osborne

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

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 respect me.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Don’t be afraid of being emotional. You won’t die of it.

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Go on – but don’t think you can kill my confidence. I’ve had experts doing it for years.

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.

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.

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