Quotes by John Osborne

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

#Confidence

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

#Failure

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

#Criticism, #Writing

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the...

#John Osborne

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

#John Osborne

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really...

#John Osborne

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

#John Osborne

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

#John Osborne

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the...

#John Osborne

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

#John Osborne

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my...

#John Osborne

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We...

#John Osborne