Brendan Behan Quotes

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem.They’re in there every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can’t do it themselves.

Bless you, Sister.May all your sons be bishops!

My name is Behan, Brendan Behan, after Saint Brendan, who got into one of our little Irish boats called a curragh one day in the sixth century and sailed across the Atlantic and found America, and when he’d found it, like a sensible man he turned around and sailed back and left it where it fuckinwell was.

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