Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr S...
A source page for quotes linked to Joe Orton.
“The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.”
“With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.”
“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”
“You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.”
“God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes”
“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.”