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
Brendan Behan quotes about
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.