Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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