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Letter "S" » Sean O'Casey Quotes
«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.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
blown, dung, full-blown, inkling, physiology, prelate, prelates, Seeing Eye, The Plant, ugliness
«Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
bishops, deacon, deacons, Duce, embattled, legion, legions, librarian, librarians, sodality, The Librarian
«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.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
apostles, cleanliness, cunning man, Curie, deliverance, enlightenment, famine, Faraday, godliness, nightingale, nightingales, Pasteur, pestilence, plague, quell, quelled, Rutherford, screaming, symbolic, the Enlightenment, willful, woebegone
«The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
enchanting, enjoyable, in one ear, lament, sometime, terrifying
«I am going where life is more like life than it is here.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
«No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
«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.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
«Under a Colored Cap»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
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