Brendan Behan Quotes

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues ... ~ Brendan Behan

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. ~ Brendan Behan

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ~ Brendan Behan

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

There's no bad publicity except an obituary. ~ Brendan Behan

Every cripple has his own way of walking. ~ Brendan Behan

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

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ~ Brendan Behan

I saw a sign that said 'Drink Canada Dry'. So I did. ~ Brendan Behan

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

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. ~ Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke. ~ Brendan Behan

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

You made one mistake. You married me. ~ Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant. ~ Brendan Behan

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? ~ Brendan Behan

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing. ~ Brendan Behan

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

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

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ~ Brendan Behan

It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with. ~ Brendan Behan

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

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

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

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life. ~ Brendan Behan

You can't go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn't think heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn't think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that. ~ Morrissey

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. ~ Brendan Behan

I'm a drinker with a writing problem. ~ Brendan Behan

In my childhood I could remember the whole week a damn sight better than I can now for all my family were in the Rising. And they told the stories to such good effect that I was in there with them… Now I have learned enough arithmetic to know that I could not possibly have taken part in an event which happened seven years before I was born, and it saddens me. ~ Brendan Behan

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. ~ Brendan Behan

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

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop. ~ Brendan Behan

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; 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. ~ Brendan Behan

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. ~ Brendan Behan

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

I am a drinker with writing problems. ~ Brendan Behan

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side. ~ Brendan Myers

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis

The best coaches I've been around, even older guys, are continually learning new ways to do things and new ways to teach. ~ Brendan Daly

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia. ~ Brendan I. Koerner

Cheyenne. Created from the finest Belgian lace over ivory sateen, it fit Anna like ~ Maggie Brendan

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos. ~ Shelly Laurenston

I do have a lucky pair of underwear. ~ Brendan Fehr

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up. ~ Brendan Halpin

Fear. Like the way Ma told me to cross the street to the other side of the sidewalk if I was walking home alone and I saw a group of guys walking toward me. Guys. That wasn't the word she used. Thugs. Fear of thugs. Just like what some people were saying on the news. Rashad looked like a thug. ~ Brendan Kiely

Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there. ~ Brendan Duffy

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda. ~ Brendan Sexton III

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops. ~ Brendan Gleeson

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do. ~ Brendan O'Carroll

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.' ~ Brendan Myers

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. ~ Brendan Dooling

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me. ~ Brendan Rodgers

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice ~ Brendan Kennelly

vacation, school starts again in September. I hate being late to my college classes, but I can't help it, and it has become a daily occurrence. Whether it's the dog needing to be let out and fed, Robert spilling breakfast on his shirt and having to change, the older girls having a fight, someone forgetting their homework, or bad traffic on the freeways - there is always something that seems to happen ~ Pam Behan

I love sweets. I have a tendency to go out at, like, 11 P.M. and get a giant piece of cake because I'm craving it. The problem is if you eat a big piece of cake that late, you wake up in the morning feeling really sick. ~ Brendan Robinson

There's going to be all different price points, and you get what you pay for. There's certainly low things made of cardboard that you don't put on your head, you just hold up little viewers that give you this glimmer of what VR could be. ~ Brendan Iribe

I cocked my fist back, remembering what Brendan had taught me. "Don't aim for your target. You'll have more of an impact that way."
I was aiming for China. ~ Cara Lynn Shultz

...And that, my friend, is why Brendan Fraser sucks. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. ~ Brendan I. Koerner

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. ~ Brendan Fehr

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen. ~ Brendan Gleeson

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. ~ Brendan Fraser

(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth. ~ Brendan McGinley

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team. ~ Brendan Rodgers

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement. ~ Brendan Brazier

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. ~ Brendan Gleeson