John Osborne Famous Quotes
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
John Osborne Quotations
"He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried."
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life."
Jeremy Thorpe
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Wystan Hugh Auden
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better"
Laurie Anderson
"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
Albert Camus
"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."
Charles Buxton
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost