Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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