115 Quotes by Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

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

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

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.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.