Brendan Behan Quotes - Page 2

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

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.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

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.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

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

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

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

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

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

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

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