Quotes from Shelagh Delaney

I'm not afraid of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

I'm not afraid of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

I dreamt about you last night. Fell out of bed twice

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could get very fond of it from a distance.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.

a woman's got as much right -and more cause- to get drunk than any man

Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns, has it?

JO watches her go, leaning against the doorpost. Then she looks round the room, smiling a little to herself -- she remembers GEOF.] JO: As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty. And there I met a pretty miss, And she dropped me a curtsy. Little miss, pretty miss, Blessings light upon you. If I had half a crown a day, I'd gladly spend it on you. Curtain.

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

Heaven must be a hell of a place. Nothing but repentant sinners up there, isn't it? All the pimps, prostitutes and politicians in creation trying to cash in on eternity and their little tin god.

I can't stand people who laugh at other people. They'd get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence, is your ultimate absence.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.