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 was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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