A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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