Joe Orton Quotes

#1. God is a gentleman.

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#2. Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

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#3. Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

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#4. It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

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#5. I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

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#6. Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

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#7. Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

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#8. The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

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#9. I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

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#10. You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

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#11. With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

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#12. FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

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#13. The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

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#14. Cleanse my heart ... Give me the ability to rage correctly

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#15. The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

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#16. There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

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#17. On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, Melancholia? Ad nauseam.

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#18. People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures ... There's nothing incredible about it.

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