John Osborne

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That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?


— John Osborne


#anger #comedy #cry #family-drama #outcry

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.


— John Osborne


#considered #london #love #scandal #tea

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.


— John Osborne


#building #clap #hard #old #too

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.


— John Osborne


#dies #except #heaven #live #love

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


#god #heroes #high #ideas #made

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


#i #i think #never #out #people

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


— John Osborne


#doing #experts #go #had #i

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.


— John Osborne


#character #clearly #drink #man #may

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.


— John Osborne


#dull #held #indeed #man #much

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.


— John Osborne


#just #success #such #thing #waiting






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[citation needed]. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright screenwriter actor and critic of the Establishment.