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
You made one mistake. You married me.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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.
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
No man can discover his own talents.
The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves.
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.