Brendan Behan Quotes

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

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.