I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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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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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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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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