Top 50 Brendan Behan Quotes (2025 Update) [Page 2]

Brendan Behan Quote: “He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.”

51. “He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.”

52. “But the best book I ever saw in the nick was the Bible. When I was in Brixton on remand, I ’ad one in the flowery. Smashing thin paper for rolling dog-ends in. I must ’ave smoked my way through the book of Genesis, before I went to court.”

— Brendan Behan

53. “I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.”

— Brendan Behan

54. “If I was willing to serve Mass, it was in memory of my ancestors standing around a rock, in a lonely glen, for fear of the landlords and their yeomen, or sneaking through a back-lane in Dublin, and giving the pass-word, to hear Mass in a slum public-house, when a priest’s head was worth five pounds and an Irish Catholic had no existence in law.”

— Brendan Behan

55. “I didn’t spend a lifetime studying theology, but I know that the Church was always against Ireland and for the British Empire.”

— Brendan Behan

56. “He was a dark man, not very old, and very hard in an English way that tries to be dignified and a member of a master race that would burn a black man alive or put a pregnant woman out the side of the road in the interests of stern duty.”

— Brendan Behan

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