Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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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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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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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