Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Orton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English playwright Joe Orton.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Joe Orton

John Kingsley Orton, known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. — © Joe Orton
The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.
The humble and meek are thirsting for lood
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."
I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.
The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.
God is a gentleman.
He prefers blondes — © Joe Orton
God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes
Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly
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