Brendan Behan Quotes
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They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues ...
— Brendan Behan
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
— Brendan Behan
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
— Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with writing problems.
— Brendan Behan
Most horror movies are certainly that.
— Brendan Behan
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
— Brendan Behan
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
— Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
— Brendan Behan
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
— Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
— Brendan Behan
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
— Brendan Behan
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
— Brendan Behan
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
— Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist.
— Brendan Behan
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
— Brendan Behan
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
— Brendan Behan
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
The English and Americans dislike only some Irishthe same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think. — Brendan Behan
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
— Brendan Behan
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
— Brendan Behan
I am a drinker with writing problems.
— Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
— Brendan Behan
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
— Brendan Behan
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
— Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
— Brendan Behan
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
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
— Brendan Behan
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
— Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
— Brendan Behan
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
— 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
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
— Brendan Behan
You made one mistake. You married me.
— Brendan Behan
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.
— Brendan Behan
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
— Brendan Behan
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
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
— Brendan Behan
No man can discover his own talents.
— Brendan Behan
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
— Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
— Brendan Behan
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
— Brendan Behan
An author's first duty is to let down his country.
— Brendan Behan
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
— Brendan Behan
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
— Brendan Behan
