Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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