He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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