30 Quotes by Joe Orton

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

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.

With madness, as with vomit, it’s the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Every luxury was lavished on you – atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

I’m too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

You were born with your legs apart. They’ll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

Reading isn’t an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

It’s all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.