16 Quotations by Brendan Behan
- 1. Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but th ...
- 2. He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
- 3. I am a drinker with writing problems.
- 4. I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
- 5. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
- 6. I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I h ...
- 7. If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
- 8. New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to ...
- 9. Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
- 10. Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
- 11. Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, ...
- 12. The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m ...
- 13. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...
- 14. There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
- 15. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
- 16. When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, ...
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