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Brendan Behan

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 respect
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 love
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
— Brendan Behan power
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
— Brendan Behan man
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
— Brendan Behan you
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan art
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
— Brendan Behan sex
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
— Brendan Behan man
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 day
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 war
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
— Brendan Behan love
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
— Brendan Behan rain
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
— Brendan Behan you
I am a drinker with writing problems.
— Brendan Behan writing
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan you
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
— Brendan Behan good
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
— Brendan Behan self
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
— Brendan Behan people
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 death
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 spiritual
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 death
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 love
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
— Brendan Behan men
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
— Brendan Behan words
I am a daylight atheist.
— Brendan Behan light
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Behan marriage
Im a drinker with writing problems.
— Brendan Behan writing
Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
— Brendan Behan respect
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, theyve seen it done every day, but theyre unable to do it themselves.
— Brendan Behan day

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