Brendan Behan Quotes

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and som...

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I...

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads saf...

I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I...

I am a drinker with writing problems.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

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

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

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m...

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

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

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

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

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the da...

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, ...

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but th...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for ever...