Brendan Behan Quotes

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Brendan Behan

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : February 9, 1923

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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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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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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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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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

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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.

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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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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

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I am a daylight atheist.

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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

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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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