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Flashcard set of key quotes from the play Sive by John B. Keane for grades 8 and 12 English.
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This 24-card flashcard set collects significant quotes and passages from John B. Keane's play Sive, featuring dialogue that reveals character motivations, family conflict, and themes of marriage and social pressure. Use it for literature review, character analysis practice, or exam preparation in middle school and high school English courses.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
8th – 12th Grades
Updated November 2025

Terms in This Set

  • “He wished you joy and plenty on your wedding...he’s going away altogether to foreign places”
  • “I don’t feel any desire for food.”
  • “I think, Gran, it was a plan by them.”
  • “' _______ edges in to look at the body, then horrified, edges slyly away and exits.”
  • “She ran like the wind and she letting cries out of her that would rend your heart...She took herown life.”
  • “You must make up the mind for them" (women)
  • “Take your books and get to your room. Is it for ornament you thinkwe are keeping you?”
  • “And I would be rid of her. And £200 into the bargain.”
  • “You’ll come to no goodeither, like the one the went before you!”
  • ”I promise I will leave these parts till Sive is a woman... But do not give her to that rotting old man.”
  • “It is hard to be a good son and a good husband under the same roof”
  • “He made a drive at me! He nearly tore the coat off me”
  • “Never set eyes on her again”
  • “Tell her you will bell-rag her through the parish if she goes against you. Tell her you will hunt the oul’ woman into the county home”
  • “He have the grass of twenty cows.”
  • “ould sick thing”
  • “When my sister died I gave my word that I would stand by her.”
  • “I will never marry such a man. I will not marry at all!”
  • “Leave it burn! What she don’t know won’t trouble her.”
  • “You are a bye-child, a common bye-child - a bastard!”
  • “I have the notion of buying a motoring car”
  • “The money is a great temptation but there is wrong in it from head to heel.”
  • “Every woman of your age in the parish has a child of her own and nothing to show by you”
  • “I would marry nobody but you, Sive”

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