Brendan Behan Quotes

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

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

Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough.

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; 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.