I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANI 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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