Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
Journalist
Poet
Songwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
Paper
Thin
Bits
Match
Alone
Cells
Ever
Fellow
Good
Smoke
Stuffing
Fellows
Tasted
Lovely
Consolation
Bible
Cell

More quotes by Brendan Behan

Image
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
Brendan Behan
Image
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
Image
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
Image
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan
Image
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Brendan Behan
Image
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
Image
Critics are like eunuchs they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
Brendan Behan
Image
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
Brendan Behan
Image
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
Image
They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan
Image
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Brendan Behan
Image
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
Brendan Behan
Image
Most horror movies are certainly that.
Brendan Behan
Image
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 satisfaction of his death.
Brendan Behan
Image
You made one mistake. You married me.
Brendan Behan
Image
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
Brendan Behan
Image
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
Image
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
Image
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
Brendan Behan
Image
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
Brendan Behan