Shelagh Delaney

Shelagh Delaney FRSL (25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work was A Taste of Honey.

Quotes

A Taste of Honey (1959)

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

• The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
  • act 1, sc. 1 (loq. Helen)

• I’m not frightened of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.
  • act 1, sc. 1 (loq. Jo)

• Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
  • act 1, sc. 2 (loq. Boy)

• I dreamt about you last night. Fell out of bed twice.
  • act 1, sc. 2 (loq. Boy)

• My usual self is a very unusual self.
  • act 2, sc. 1 (loq. Jo)

• I can’t stand people who laugh at other people. They’d get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.
  • act 2, sc. 1 (loq. Geof)

• 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.
  • act 2, sc. 1 (loq. Geof)

The Lion in Love (1960)

• Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.
  • act 1, sc. 1 (loq. Frank)

• This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could get very fond of it from a distance.
  • act 1, sc. 1 (loq. Loll)

• Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, has it?
  • act 1, sc. 1 (loq. Kit)
  • cf. Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), act 3 sc. 2 (loq. Zara)

Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1968)

• I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.
  • "Sweetly Sings the Donkey"

• Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.
  • "Sweetly Sings the Donkey"

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Shelagh Delaney on Wikipedia