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
confidence thinking years
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
thinking play people
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
finest god thank
Thank God we're normal, normal, normal, Thank God we're normal, Yes, this is our finest shower!
books last reviews seem
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
held indeed widely
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
age dies except heaven love man
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
gold decay filling-in
Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay
filth serious british
There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.
death dying too-much
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.
tea london scandal
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
old-buildings architecture building
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
hero ideas may
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.
educator underpaid
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
children age dreary
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.