Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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 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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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