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.
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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