John Osborne quotes

" They spend their time looking forward to the past. " # Past # Love # Time and Time Management

" 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 # Love # God

" What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach? " # Rewards # Coaches and Coaching # Hope

" 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. " # Sacrifice # Belief # Time and Time Management

" We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. " # Death and Dying # Family # Vulgarity

" Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine, October 16, 1977. " # New World # Cities and City Life # Time and Time Management

" Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building. " # Fame

" Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they. " # Gossip # Love # Age and Aging

" Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you. " # Fame # Love # Work

" John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity. " # Anger # Critics and Criticism # Heroes and Heroism