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John Osborne Quotes

English - Playwright | December 12, 1929 - December 24, 1994

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

Success Failure Waiting Just Thing

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

Love Live Age Man Heaven Stage

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

Architecture Building Old Hard Clap

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.

God Alone Simple Universe Sunlight

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

Confidence Think Doing You Go Years

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

Walk People Think Wrong Never Out

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.

Time Sacrifice People Doing You Sex

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Time Past Looking Forward Forward

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Questions Easy You Answer Bothering

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

Man Wine Too Much Desire Will Dull

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

Character Man True Drink Changes

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

Love Best Tea London Scandal

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