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.
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
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
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers. - Brendan Behan
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the sat… - Brendan Behan
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the sat…
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. - Brendan Behan
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. - Brendan Behan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. - Brendan Behan
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. - Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
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