A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
BRENDAN BEHANScream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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