Look Back in Anger Quotes

“It's no good fooling about with love, you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice tidy soul, you better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint, because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world... or the next.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“You can't be happy when what you're doing is wrong, or is hurting someone else.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“They all want to escape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love...
It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life, and become a saint because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world or the next.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“Chi non ha un mondo suo si diverte a rimpiangere il tramonto di un mondo altrui.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“Alison's mummy and I took one look at each other, and from then on the age of chivalry was dead.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger