I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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