Joe Orton Quotes

#1. I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life. - Author: Lena Headey

#2. 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. - Author: Todd Blackledge

#3. 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. - Author: Joe Orton

#4. 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. - Author: Joe Orton

#5. 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. - Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle

#6. There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you. - Author: Joe Orton

#7. The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. - Author: Joe Orton

#8. Cleanse my heart ... Give me the ability to rage correctly - Author: Joe Orton

#9. 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. - Author: Kenneth Cranham

#10. I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. - Author: S.J Perelman

#11. The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. - Author: Joe Orton

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

#13. She comes with horns not the moon
And tail not the comet - Author: Cesar Ruiz Aquino

#14. God is a gentleman. - Author: Joe Orton

#15. With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. - Author: Joe Orton

#16. You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin. - Author: Joe Orton

#17. I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair. - Author: Joe Orton

#18. The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility. - Author: Joe Orton

#19. Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision. - Author: Joe Orton

#20. Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. - Author: Joe Orton

#21. I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. - Author: Joe Orton

#22. It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception. - Author: Joe Orton

#23. 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? - Author: Anonymous

#24. My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one. - Author: Matthew McConaughey

#25. Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. - Author: Joe Orton

#26. Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected. - Author: Joe Orton