When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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