John Osborne citáty

„Učitel je bezesporu finančně podceněn jako pečovatel o děti, ale jako pedagog je šíleně přeplacen.“

„Každý jsme ve vesmíru sám. Nějak si z toho musíme pomoci.“

„Žena - rafinovaná směs pyromana a hasiče.“

„Nikdy nevěř zrcadlům, ani novinám.“

„Historikové jsou něco jako vizážisté velkého divadla světa.“

“You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?”

“Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.”

“Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.”

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”

“Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”

“John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.”

“Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they.”

“George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”

“This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.”