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Brendan Behan
Irish
Dramatist
About the author
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.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Food
#Old
#Men
#Society
#Women
#Summer
#Winter
#Beer
#Irreverence
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#May
#Sons
#Sister
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Publicity
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.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Day
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Money
#Difference
#Sex
I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Problems
#Writing
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.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Death
#Absence
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Right
#Hell
#Men
#Difference
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#World
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Bible
#Old
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Pretty
#Shakespeare
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Irish
#Nationality
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Respect
#Irish
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Forget
#Poor
#Deed
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Irish
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Death
#Court
#Absence
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Words
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.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Spiritual
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Publicity