John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osbornewas an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 December 1929
butchers refined
A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.
writing needs need-love
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
simple rocks atheism
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.
past looking-forward
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
marriage silly habit
Marriage is rather a silly habit.
confidence thinking years
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
fear self censorship
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
taste british
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
laughter grace sainthood
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
voice long heaven
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!
men bisexual world
I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.
hatred triumph majority
And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
character men may
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
answers easy ultimate-questions
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.