Seán O'Casey Short Quotes

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

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He's an oul' butty o' mine—oh, he's a darlin' man, a daarlin' man.

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed.

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As far as I can see, the Polis as Polis, in this city, is Null an' Void!

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

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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

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

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I killin' meself workin', an' he sthruttin' about from mornin' till night like a paycock!

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

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

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One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor.

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Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's wailful screaming or faith's cymballic prayer.

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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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She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use – afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off.

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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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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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Work! Labour, the aspergas 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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A few hundhred scrawls o' chaps with a couple o' guns and Rosary beads, again' a hundhred thousand thrained men with horse, fut an' artillery... an' he wants us to fight fair!

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

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The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysted into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.

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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.

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