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
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.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
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.
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.