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 BEHANThere is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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