Shelagh Delaney Quotes

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

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.

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

I’m not frightened of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. I can't help wondering what will happen when redundant spies join the ranks of the unemployed.

... 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.

We teach you the pleasure of physical exercise—the team-spirit of games, too, for when you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that must be played with true team-spirit—there is no room for the outsider in life.

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

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

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.

I can’t stand people who laugh at other people. They’d get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.

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

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

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us.