Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

I value kindness to humans first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have 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.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.