“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“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“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“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
Brendan Behan“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 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“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“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”
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“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”
Brendan Behan“What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.”
Brendan Behan