Irish
Dramatist
Irish Dramatist
4
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.
2
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
1
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
0
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
-1
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
-2
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
