Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANA pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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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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