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 BEHANI cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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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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