"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."

"An author's first duty is to let down his country."

"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…"