23 Brendan Behan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Brendan Behan

Irish Dramatist

Born: Feb 9, 1923

Died: Mar 20, 1964

Go Good Irish Man Me You

Related authors: Brian Friel Charles Macklin George Bernard Shaw George Farquhar Hugh Leonard Lady Gregory Oscar Wilde

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. Brendan Behan

Loneliness Lost Self Powerful Yearning Union Deep Core Innermost

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

Love Man Woman Him Halfway Any Listens Who

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

Out Would Saint Patrick's Day Go Soup Irish Forks Raining

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

Food Beer Winter Women Old Men Stronger Society Summer Total Except Cheaper Roads Safer Makes Irreverence Anything Happier Which Warmer Old Men Old Women Connected

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. Brendan Behan

People Other Jews Irish Nationality Psychosis

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. Brendan Behan

Seen Situation Worse Never Policeman Make Dismal

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

Respect Wonderful Cynical Everybody Everything Rather Irish Lack

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Behan

Success Alone Man Our Dream More Prospect Most Without Terrors Cherished His Than Achieved Achieving Deprived Who

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

Death Me Back Absence Could Said Dublin Came Shoot Sentenced

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

Money Sex Free Big Costs Between Big Difference Lot Difference Less

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Brendan Behan

Book Like Infantryman Article Authority Hands Quotation Speaks Rifle Speech

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

Alone Good You Bible Old Paper Bit Consolation Could Stuffing Fellow Smoke Match Get Cell Tasted Lovely Ever Thin

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

Death Me Absence Could Said Shoot Sentenced

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. Brendan Behan

You Everything Guts Something Obtaining Greatly Stake Desire

I am a drinker with writing problems. Brendan Behan

Writing Problems Drinker Am

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

Wish Mixed Been Infant

I am a daylight atheist. Brendan Behan

Atheist Daylight Am

No man can discover his own talents. Brendan Behan

Man Own Talents Discover His

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