Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey
Seán O'Caseywas an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 March 1880
CountryIreland
would-be temper detrimental
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
new-york night men
The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.
study states whole
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
hope healing dark
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
money doe nerves
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
struggle destiny men
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.
life song insightful
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.
way fleas england
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.
believe curious ifs
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
men drunk important
A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
song ears enchanting
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
writing hard-work kind
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
eye past men
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
men law goes-on
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.