I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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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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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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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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