"Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a……" — 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 this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle."
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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey
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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, 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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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
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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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