Sean O`Casey Quotes

Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. March 1880 – 18. September 1964
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Famous Sean O`Casey Quotes

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

Source: Three More Plays: The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Red Roses For Me

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

Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock, Act 2

Sean O`Casey Quotes

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

Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock (1924), Act 1, and repeated several times later in the play.

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

Fluther Good, Act 2
The Plough and the Stars (1926)

“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.”

Letter to The Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1941; published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1975) p. 890.
Of P. G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin.

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