Brendan Behan Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it w

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

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

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

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

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

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

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

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

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

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

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

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

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

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

Most horror movies are certainly that.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

No man can discover his own talents.