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I'm a drinker with writing problems.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Drinking Writing

I am a drinker with writing problems.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Drinking Humour Writing

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Canada Canadians

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

Brendan Behan Critics Criticism

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Drink Drinking Drinkers

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

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Family Ancestry

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Insults Calumny

I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance 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

Brendan Behan Society Social

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

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Soup Raining Irish

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

Brendan Behan Cynical Wonderful Irish

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Man Woman Him

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

Brendan Behan Me Said Back

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

Brendan Behan Me Said Absence

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

Brendan Behan Women Winter Society

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

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Day Man Through

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

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Free Difference Sex

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

Brendan Behan Love World You

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

Brendan Behan Good Bible You
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