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John Osborne
7 quotes
“Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)
“George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph for George Dillon, Act II (1957)
“This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961), as reprinted in The Independent (4 April 1994).
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977.
“Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source