Quotes by Brendan Behan

“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”

“I am a drinker with writing problems.”

“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 s...”

“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, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“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 ha...”

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

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

“The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

“We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.”

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

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

“I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads s...”

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