Joe Orton Quotes

#1. God is a gentleman.

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

#4. My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Matthew McConaughey

#5. 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Anonymous

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

#10. The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

#14. I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.

Lena Headey

#15. She comes with horns not the moon
And tail not the comet

Cesar Ruiz Aquino

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

#18. I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

S.J Perelman

#19. I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.

Kenneth Cranham

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

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

Joe Orton

#23. There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#24. 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.

Joe Orton

#25. 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.

Joe Orton

#26. I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.

Todd Blackledge