Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Brendan Behan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Drinkers
Problem
Writing
Drinker
More quotes by Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
Brendan Behan
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
Brendan Behan
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
Brendan Behan
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
Brendan Behan
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
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
You made one mistake. You married me.
Brendan Behan
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
Brendan Behan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Brendan Behan
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
Brendan Behan