Sean O'Casey

“The supreme question is not what we can get, but what we can give.”

“To be able to laugh and to be able to think, this is to be able to do everything.”

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged with seriousness - the hilarious declaration of things as they are.”

“The world is in a state of chassis.”

“Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.”

“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.”

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

“That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.”

“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.”

“What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like!”

“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely.”

“The artist's life is to be where life is, active and not asleep or dawdling or snoring.”

“What can God do agen the stupidity o' men?”

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