Brendan Behan Quotes

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

Respect, Everything, Wonderful

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan

Irish, Jews, Psychosis

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

Women, Men, Food

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan

Money, Sex, Free

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan

Bad, Except, 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

Done, Themselves, Seen

I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan

Writing, Problems, Drinker

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan

Saint Patrick's Day, Raining, Irish

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

Love, Important, Somebody

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan

Situation, Seen, Worse

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan

Enough, Drink, Thousand

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan

May, Sister, Bless

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

Death, Said, Absence

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan

Good, Except, Notice

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

Good, Alone, Old

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

Spiritual, Place, Wild

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

Death, Said, Absence

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan

Judge, Everything, Pretty

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan

Good, Men, Lost

I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan

Atheist, Daylight

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
Brendan Behan

Words, Minds, Depressed

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Brendan Behan

Wish, Mixed, Infant

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan

Good, Forget, Poor

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: February 9, 1923

Died: March 20, 1964

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