John Osborne Quotes - Page 2

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• The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

  John Osborne

  Sex, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Marriage is rather a silly habit.

  John Osborne

  Marriage, Silly, Habit

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• The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

  John Osborne

  Taste, British

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• There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

  John Osborne

  Filth, Serious, British

  1967 On the opening of the USmusical Hair, in Time magazine.

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• 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

  Hero, Ideas, Demise

  John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.82, Oberon Books

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• 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.

  John Osborne

  Children, Age, Courses

  John Osborne (2013). “John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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