Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote / Image

Quote image editor John Osborne

Back to previous page

“If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.” — John Osborne

Quote 1080 x 1350 Instagram portrait
More
Platforms
Pure ratios
If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.
— John Osborne