Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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