Best Quotes by Brendan Behan (Top 10)
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
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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
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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
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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
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They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...
Brendan Behan
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
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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
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I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Brendan Behan
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish—the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers—the ones that think.
Brendan Behan
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
Brendan Behan
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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
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An author's first duty is to let down his country.
Brendan Behan
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
Brendan Behan
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
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I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.
Brendan Behan
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Brendan Behan