The Cripple of Inishmaan Quotes

“Ah what harm? Do what you want and feck everybody else is Johnnypateenmichael’s motto.”
― Martin McDonagh, The Cripple Of Inishmaan

“Doctor Where’s your mammy now? Johnny At home she is. (Pause.) Lying at the foot of me stairs. Doctor What’s she doing lying at the foot of your stairs? Johnny Nothing. Just lying. Ah she seems happy enough. She has a pint with her. Doctor How did she get lying at the foot of your stairs? Johnny Be falling down them! How d’ya usually get lying at the foot of a fella’s stairs? Doctor And you just left her there? Johnny Is it my job to go picking her up? Doctor It is!”
― Martin McDonagh, The Cripple Of Inishmaan

“A church hall in semi-darkness. Bobby, Mammy (bottle in hand), Johnny, Helen, Bartley, Eileen and Kate sitting.”
― Martin McDonagh, The Cripple Of Inishmaan

“Bobby You could throw the book at the cow. Billy I would rather to read the book, Bobby. Bobby It takes all kinds, as they say.”
― Martin McDonagh, The Cripple Of Inishmaan

“You did give me treatment. You never tell me any news. Your Mrs up and died of TB the other year, and who was the last to know? I was the last to know. I wasn’t told until the day she died, and you knew for weeks and weeks, with not a thought for my feelings …”
― Martin McDonagh, The Cripple Of Inishmaan