When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
BRENDAN BEHANWhen I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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 one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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