Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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 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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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