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Quotes from Sweetly Sings the Donkey — Shelagh Delaney

1938–2011 England

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"He was very ugly but people can't help the faces they're born with."

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

Sweetly sings the donkey
As he goes to grass
He who sings so sweetly
Is sure to be an ass.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

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

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

We teach you the pleasure of physical exercise—the team-spirit of games, too, for when you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that must be played with true team-spirit—there is no room for the outsider in life.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

... Poles seem to be as much condemned to a diet of caviar, vodka and the Polka as the English are to rare old port and pheasant.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

"There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. I can't help wondering what will happen when redundant spies join the ranks of the unemployed."

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

He didn't play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point, as Tom hurtled through his life catching up with himself at last.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

According to her, only a revolution will ever bring true democracy to this country and the sooner revolution comes (she said) the better and even though hundreds of innocents will be slaughtered they will die in a good cause and men must be willing to sacrifice themselves. But that depends I suppose on which men you're thinking of.

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Shelagh Delaney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.