Brendan Behan Quotes
"Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Sister, May, Sons)
"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Publicity)
"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."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Day)
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Money, Sex, Difference)
"I am a daylight atheist."
- Brendan Behan
"I am a drinker with writing problems."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Problems, Writing)
"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."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Death, Absence)
"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Men, Difference, Hell, Right)
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Love, World)
"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."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Bible, Old)
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Pretty, Shakespeare)
"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: People, Irish, Nationality)
"One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough."
- Brendan Behan
"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."
- Brendan Behan
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Irish, Respect)
"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Deed, Forget, Poor)
"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Irish)
"I wish I'd been a mixed infant."
- Brendan Behan
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Death, Absence, Court)
"I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Words)
"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Spiritual)
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Publicity)