Quotes from John Osborne

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

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

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

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

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

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

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.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

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

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.

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