What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. - Kenneth Tynan

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre — a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.