John Osborne Quotes

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

'Mr. Majnu' is a modern and passionate love and he loves to be around girls, they love him too. But, I'm nothing like that in real life.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

I dote on his very absence.

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.