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.
BRENDAN BEHANNinety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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