Brendan Behan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am a daylight atheist.”

“If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.”

“It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.”

“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.”

“I wish I'd been a mixed infant.”