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
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!
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.
taste british
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
sex giving-up sacrifice
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.
waiting
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
voice doe cry
That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?
betrayal love-is years
You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.
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.
educator underpaid
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
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.
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.
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.