Sean O'Casey Quotes

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• All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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  Inspirational, Funny Life, Drama

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• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

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  Laughter, Wine, Men

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• That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

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  Serious Things, Serious, Treats

  Sean O'Casey (1985). “Seven Plays”

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• I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

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  Stars, Sky

  Sean O'Casey (1974). “Juno and the Paycock and the Plough and the Stars”

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• There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

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  Intellectual, Passionate, Argument

  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Under a Colored Cap: Articles Merry and Mournful with Comments and a Song”

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• When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

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  Hope, Healing, Dark

  Sean O'Casey (1984). “The complete plays of Sean O&Casey. 3. Purple dust. Red roses for me. Hall of healing”, London : Macmillan

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• To me life is simply an invitation to live.

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  Life Is, Invitations

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

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  Wall, Cells, Ideas

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• Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

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  Effort, Greed, Political

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• Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

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  Humor, Vanity, Self

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• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

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  Life, Song, Insightful

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

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  Study, States, Whole

  Juno and the Paycock act 1 (1925)

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• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

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  Book, Thinking, Artist

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• There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

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  Thinking, Atheism, Dignity

  1926 The Plough and the Stars, act1.

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• Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

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  Money, Doe, Nerves

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• So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

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  Prayer, Needs, Way

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• Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

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  Stars, Hair, Serenity

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.423, Faber & Faber

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• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

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  Happiness, Secret, Monotony

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• Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

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  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Autobiographies”

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• It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

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  Would Be, Temper, Detrimental

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• The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

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  Wise, Gay, Men

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• Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

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  Jesus, Men, Community

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• What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

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  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Autobiographies”

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• When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

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  Trying, World, Likes

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• Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1956). “Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star”, MacMillan

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