"The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it……" — 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 be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly."
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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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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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A waste land lit by holy candles.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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