John Osborne

Revenge is a dish best served cold, but theater is best served hot.

The angry young man is still angry, but older.

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans; let's be beastly to ourselves.

Writing is the only way to escape without leaving home.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise to contemn delays.

I loathe the hand that feeds me.

The stage is a world of make-believe, but the emotions are real.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Wit is educated insolence.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

In the theater, you can say things that you can't say in life.

Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely—especially in politics.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

My last words? 'I've had a good run.'

Comebacks are for losers; winners move on.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.