Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
BRENDAN BEHANShakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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