Sean O Casey Quotes

#1. Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

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#2. The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

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#3. All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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#4. 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 community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

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#5. That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

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#6. Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

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#7. Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

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#8. When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

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#9. The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

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#10. Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

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#11. 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 with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

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#12. That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

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#13. 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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#14. 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 to keep it out of as many things as possible.

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#15. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

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#16. A waste land lit by holy candles.

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#17. I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

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#18. Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

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#19. There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

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#20. A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.

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#21. 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 always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

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#22. 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 a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

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#23. Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

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#24. If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

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#25. Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

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#26. To me life is simply an invitation to live.

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#27. When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

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#28. So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

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#29. No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.

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#30. Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

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#31. The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

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#32. There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

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#33. I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

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#34. It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

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