Shelagh Delaney Quotes

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

... Poles seem to be as much condemned to a diet of caviar, vodka and the Polka as the English are to rare old port and pheasant.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Sweetly sings the donkey As he goes to grass He who sings so sweetly Is sure to be an ass.

This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could get very fond of it from a distance.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

He didn't play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point, as Tom hurtled through his life catching up with himself at last.

As I was going up Pippin Hill, </br> Pippin Hill was dirty. </br> And there I met a pretty miss, </br> And she dropped me a curtsy. </br> Little miss, pretty miss, </br> Blessings light upon you. </br> If I had half a crown a day, </br> I'd gladly spend it on you.

Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, has it?

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your time to learn from your own.

I dreamt about you last night. Fell out of bed twice.

He was very ugly but people can't help the faces they're born with.

According to her, only a revolution will ever bring true democracy to this country and the sooner revolution comes (she said) the better and even though hundreds of innocents will be slaughtered they will die in a good cause and men must be willing to sacrifice themselves. But that depends I suppose on which men you're thinking of.