Young Cassidy (1965)

Flora Robson: Mrs. Cassidy

Quotes 

• Mrs. Cassidy : [after the fighting stopped]  Will there be peace now?

  John Cassidy : Ay... for the dead.

• Mrs. Cassidy : [slightly sarcastically as he briefly passes through the room where John and Mick are discussing a labor strike]  Up the revolution. Workers unite, ya have nothin' to lose... except your jobs.

  John Cassidy : You push off on your way out, ya darn fella.

  Mrs. Cassidy : I'll tell ya somethin', that little old boyo Will Shakespeare could move the hearts of people more by gettin' them together in the theatre than you'll ever do by gettin' them together in a riotous mass.

  John Cassidy : Whaddya mean by that Arch?

  Mrs. Cassidy : [smiling]  Don't forget the dreamer in yourself Johnny. Goodnight.

  [leaves the house] 

• Mrs. Cassidy : What good will it do Johnny, all this drillin' and shootin' at targets?

  John Cassidy : It might help free Ireland if they went about it the right way.

  Mrs. Cassidy : No man and no people can ever be made free by such goins on. It's against the law of man and it's against the law of God, and I won't have ya forget it Johnny.

  John Cassidy : What happens if the law of man is unfair mother, what do ya do then?

  Mrs. Cassidy : Suffer it.

• Mrs. Cassidy : What became of Ella, John?

  John Cassidy : Five children in as many years, it doesn't leave much time for music and poetry.

• John Cassidy : I've told 'em to take off their uniforms and keep 'em for the wedding. I've told 'em the British will use cannons in the streets of Dublin, if need be. I've told 'em to stop goin' marchin' around in groups. I've told 'em and they think I'm daft! I've done all that I could and I've left 'em.

  Mrs. Cassidy : Thank, God.