A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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