Irish Quote by Sean O'Casey Download Open image “That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.” — Sean O'Casey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irish Irish Treat Joke Joke Thing Jokes Serious Serious things Thing Joke Treat Joke Treats
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen. — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
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I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
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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… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
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There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
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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… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
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… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image