Brendan Behan Irish Quotations

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

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

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

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

The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.