Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHANNothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
-
-
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
You made one mistake. You married me.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
BRENDAN BEHAN