Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANWhen I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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’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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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