Quote

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

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
Depends
Taking
Imagine
Cannot
Life
Depend
Worse
Whose
Crime

More quotes by Brendan Behan

Image
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
Image
I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
Brendan Behan
Image
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
Image
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
Brendan Behan
Image
No man can discover his own talents.
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
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
Brendan Behan
Image
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
Brendan Behan
Image
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Brendan Behan
Image
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Brendan Behan
Image
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Brendan Behan
Image
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
Brendan Behan
Image
You made one mistake. You married me.
Brendan Behan
Image
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
Image
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
Image
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
Image
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
Brendan Behan
Image
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
Brendan Behan