I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
BRENDAN BEHANIt is a good deed to forget a poor joke
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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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.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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