Sean O'Casey

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

— Sean O'Casey

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.

— 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

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

— Sean O'Casey

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

— 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

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

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.

— 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.

— Sean O'Casey

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

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

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

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.

— 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