Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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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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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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