Brendan Behan Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Brendan Behan:
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
~Brendan Behan
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
~Brendan Behan
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~Brendan Behan
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I am a daylight atheist.
~Brendan Behan
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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
~Brendan Behan
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
~Brendan Behan
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I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
~Brendan Behan
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
~Brendan Behan
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
~Brendan Behan
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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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.
~Brendan Behan
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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
~Brendan Behan
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
~Brendan Behan
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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.
~Brendan Behan
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No man can discover his own talents.
~Brendan Behan
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
~Brendan Behan
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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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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
~Brendan Behan
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
~Brendan Behan
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
~Brendan Behan
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
~Brendan Behan
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
~Brendan Behan
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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~Brendan Behan
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
~Brendan Behan
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
~Brendan Behan
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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.
~Brendan Behan
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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.
~Brendan Behan
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I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
~Brendan Behan
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
~Brendan Behan
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
~Brendan Behan
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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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