There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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