Sean O'Casey Quotes

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than…
• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
• When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
• Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order…
• Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer…
• 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…
• 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…
• A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
• 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…
• It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the…
• 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 be no frankincense…
• A waste land lit by holy candles.
• There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
• 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…
• Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature,…
• The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going…
• Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy…
• We couldn't live without comedy.
• Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

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