I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHANNinety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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