"A lament in one ear, maybe, but always…" — Sean O'Casey
"A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other"
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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey has 39 quotes on this site.
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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;…
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
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Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary,…
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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of…
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from…
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into…
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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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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner…
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold,…
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A waste land lit by holy candles.
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More Ear Quotes
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one of 1,176 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it…
— Maria Callas
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