Sean O'Casey Quotes
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
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.
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.
I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?
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.
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.
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
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.
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.
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.
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.
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
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.
