E'Jéi Osborne Quotes

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

Nothing in my life would mean anything if you weren't here to share it. There'd be no reason to get up in the morning without you to light the sun with your smile.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen.” Jenny blinked. “I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.

The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted.

Anything else, Your Majesty?" "I didn't say my prayers." "I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless all the rotten cousins and kill Jenny. Amen.

Will everyone stop eating dinosaurs?' she frowned.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

One single sentence, one frame of film, and abracadabra! the story’s wings would take her to another lost world, another magic realm that was ready to be explored.

His youth was a wingless Dodo.

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.