Shelagh Delaney quotes:

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

[JO watches her go, leaning against the doorpost. Then she looks round the room, smiling a little to herself -- she remembers GEOF.]JO: As I was going up Pippin Hill,Pippin Hill was dirty. And there I met a pretty miss,And she dropped me a curtsy.Little miss, pretty miss,Blessings light upon you.If I had half a crown a day,I'd gladly spend it on you.Curtain.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I'm not afraid of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.