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Brendan Behan Quotes

«It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.»
Author: Brendan Behan
«The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.»
Author: Brendan Behan | About: Sex | Keywords: big, costs, for free, sex, the Big, The Big Money, usually
«...Actually, I'm a drinker with writing problems.»
Author: Brendan Behan | Keywords: drinker, drinkers
«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.»
Author: Brendan Behan | Keywords: critics, eunuchs, harem, unable
«I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.»
Author: Brendan Behan | Keywords: Canada, dry
«To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.»
Author: Brendan Behan | Keywords: regarded
«Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.»
«There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.»
«When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence»
«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.»

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