There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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