Sean O'Casey

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing…

— Sean O'Casey

Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

— Sean O'Casey

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of…

— Sean O'Casey

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows…

— Sean O'Casey

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal…

— Sean O'Casey

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered…

— Sean O'Casey

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

— Sean O'Casey

“The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

— Sean O'Casey

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.…

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

— Sean O'Casey

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall…

— Sean O'Casey

A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.

— Sean O'Casey

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side…

— Sean O'Casey

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener…

— Sean O'Casey

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way…

— Sean O'Casey

We couldn't live without comedy.

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there…

— Sean O'Casey

“What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener…

— Sean O'Casey

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's…

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey