Words matter. These are the best Brendan Behan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
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.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.
I wish I’d been a mixed infant.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
I am a daylight atheist.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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 quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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.
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
No man can discover his own talents.
I am a drinker with writing problems.
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
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.
