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
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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.
No man can discover his own talents.
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.