Quotes by Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Ears

Enchanting

Song

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Echoes

Laughing

Laughter

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion’s willful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

Light

Men

Prayer

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.

Insightful

Life

Song

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.

Fleas

Literature

Way

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

Detrimental

Temper

Would Be

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.

Community

Jesus

Men

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man’s boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Hue

Laughter

Men

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

Honor

Humor

Sanity

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.

Humor

Self

Vanity

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Army

Artist

Book

Cells

Comedy

Community

Destiny

Detrimental

Drama

Ears

Echoes

Effort

Enchanting

Fighting

Fleas

Goes On

Greed

Happiness

Honor

Hue

Humor

Ideas

Insightful

Inspiration

Invitations

Jesus

Laughing

Laughter

Law

Life

Life Is

Light

Literature

Men

Military

Monotony

New York

Night

Political

Prayer

Running

Sanity

Secret

Self

Song

Struggle

Temper

Thinking

Vanity

Wall

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Quotes by Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

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.

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.

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

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.

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man’s boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

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

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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