Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHANThe big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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