Sean O`Casey quotes

Sean O'Casey was an influential Irish playwright renowned for his realistic and powerful portrayals of working-class life in Dublin. His works, such as "Juno and the Paycock" and "The Plough and the Stars," brought the struggles of ordinary people to the forefront of modern theatre. He is remembered for his bold use of language and his deeply human characters. Here are 28 of his quotes:

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

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

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

Sean O`Casey

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

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

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

Sean O`Casey

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

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor 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 its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

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

Sean O`Casey

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

Sean O`Casey

I wouldn't be everlasting' cockin' me earth hear every little whisper that was floatin' around me! It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.

Sean O`Casey

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Sean O`Casey

Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

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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.

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

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

Sean O`Casey

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.

Sean O`Casey

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

Sean O`Casey