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Category: Brendan Behan

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Day, Man, Through

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Women, Winter, Society

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

Me, Said, Absence

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

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Man, Woman, Him

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

Cynical, Wonderful, Irish

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

Soup, Raining, Irish

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

. . . ’twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

insults, calumny

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

family, ancestry

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen – locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

drink, , drinking, drinkers