Single 34 Selected Quotes By - Brendan Behan
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| Single 34 Selected Quotes By - Brendan Behan |
Single 34 Selected Quotes By - Brendan Behan
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
— Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
— Brendan Behan
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
— Brendan Behan
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
— Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
— Brendan Behan
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
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
— Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
— Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
— Brendan Behan
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
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
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
— Brendan Behan
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
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
— Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist.
— Brendan Behan
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
— Brendan Behan
I am a drinker with writing problems.
— Brendan Behan
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.
— Brendan Behan
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
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Behan
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
— Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
— Brendan Behan
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
— Brendan Behan
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
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?
— Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
— Brendan Behan
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
No man can discover his own talents.
— Brendan Behan
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
— Brendan Behan
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
— Brendan Behan
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
— Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
— Brendan Behan
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