If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHANOne drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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