When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
BRENDAN BEHANOther people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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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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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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