Our Friends Brendan Behan Quotes
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~ Brendan Behan Quote
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 Quote
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverance 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 Quote
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
I am a drinker with writing problems.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
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 Quote
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
~ Brendan Behan Quote
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 Quote