Brendan Behan quotes

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

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

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.
- Brendan Behan

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
- Brendan Behan

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

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
- 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

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
- Brendan Behan

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
- Brendan Behan

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

I am a drinker with writing problems.
- 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 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

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
- Brendan Behan

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
- Brendan Behan

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

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
- Brendan Behan

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