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I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.
Brendan Behan

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Brendan Behan

I value kindness to 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 old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

I'd rather be dead than think about death.
Brendan Behan

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
Brendan Behan
Asked about the message in his play after a performance of The Hostage

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

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
Richard's Cork Leg

So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrock, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
Brendan Behan
Borstal Boy

The bells of hell
Go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for me.
Oh death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling
Or grave thy victory?
Brendan Behan
The Hostage

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Brendan Behan - Irish dramatist. Born 1923. Died 1964.