Brendan Behan Quotes

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

You made one mistake. You married me.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

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.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.