"When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they …"

"He was born an Englishman and remained one for years."

"There's no bad publicity except an obituary."

"The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again."

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everyb…"

"Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough."

"I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irr…"

"I only drink on two occasions — When I am thirsty and when I'm not."

"As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not rega…"

"Brendan described himself as a drinker with a writing problem, but what he really was a painter with a writing proble…"