77 Quotes by Sean O'Casey

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

That’s the Irish all over – they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.