John Osborne Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von John Osborne:

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

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.

John Osborne

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Osborne

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

John Osborne

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

John Osborne

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

John Osborne

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

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

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

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

John Osborne

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

John Osborne

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

John Osborne

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

John Osborne