Brendan Behan Famous Quotes & Sayings
68 Brendan Behan Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
There's no bad publicity except an obituary. 
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? More pictures »
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against. More pictures »
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. More pictures »
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. More pictures »
I'm a drinker with a writing problem. 
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing. More pictures »
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers. 
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. More pictures »
I'm a drinker with writing problems. 
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman. 
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. 
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together. 
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. 
An author's first duty is to let down his country. 
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil. 
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. More pictures »
I wish I'd been a mixed infant. 
I am a drinker with writing problems. 
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. 
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. 
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. 
Every cripple has his own way of walking. 
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. 
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. 
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living. 
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing. 
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. 
Pound notes are the best religion in the world. 
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. 
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. 
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. 
I ruined my health drinking to other people's. 
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry. 
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time. 
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again. 
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation. 
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. 
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. 
You made one mistake. You married me. 
The English and Americans dislike only some Irishthe same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think.
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark. 
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. 
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life. 
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; 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. 
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop. 
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results. 
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke. 
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. 
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. 
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. 
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. 
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. 
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. 
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. 
I am a daylight atheist. 
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. 
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. 
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. 
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. 
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues ... 
No man can discover his own talents. 
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. 
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. 
Most horror movies are certainly that. 
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman? 
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. 
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.