John Osborne Quotes

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

No man lives without fault.

We are all human beings. We are not machines that everything you put in comes out perfect.

I'm only a human being. I'm not a robot.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

People are made up of flaws.

Imperfection is relatable.

I'm no superman.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm only a human being.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.