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Famous Joe Orton Quotes
“The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.”
Source: The Visitors: Fred and Madge : Two Plays
“With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.”
Source: Entertaining Mr Sloane
“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”
Source: Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...
“You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.”
Source: Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...
“God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes”
Source: Loot
“It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.”
“Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.”
“I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.”
“Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.”
Source: What The Butler Saw