Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behanwas an Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family, he became a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 February 1923
CountryIreland
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
You made one mistake. You married me.
I am a daylight atheist.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.