Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t 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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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