Brendan Behan Quotes

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. - Brendan Behan

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. - Brendan Behan

Never throw stones at your mother,
You'll be sorry for it when she's dead,
Never throw stones at your mother,
Throw bricks at your father instead. (The Hostage) - 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

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

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

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

I'd rather be dead than think about death. - Brendan Behan

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

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds. - Brendan Behan

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