Quotes by Brendan Behan - Page 2

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Family
Men
Forgiving
Mother
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan / Poet
History
Men
Both Sides
Differences
Hell
Lost
Sides
Difference
Good Men
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Saint
Two
Years
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They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Land
Language
Tongue
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Men
Inspire
Role Models
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Hands
Modern Life
Toss
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Made
Miserable
Situation
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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 / Poet
Core
Loneliness
Lost
Powerful
Self
Yearning
Deep
Innermost
Union
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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 / Poet
Funny
Marriage
Money
Sex
Sexy
Lot
Free
Between
Big Difference
Less
Costs
Difference
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The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Heart
Mind
Weather
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Joyce
Judging
Said
Umpires
James
Shakespeare
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When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
Brendan Behan / Poet
People
Talking
Way
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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.
Brendan Behan / Poet
War
Cost Of Living
Mind
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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 / Poet
Authority
Book
Hands
Infantryman
Speech
Article
Quotation
Rifle
Speaks
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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 / Poet
Love
Life
Relationship
Drink
Important
Important Things
Love You
World
Eat
Love World Important
Love Relationship World
Somebody
The Most Important
To Love
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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 / Poet
Death
Life
Absence
Dublin
Ireland And The Irish
Said
Shoot
Sentenced
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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 / Poet
Respect
Cynical
Ireland And The Irish
Wonderful
Everybody
Irish
Lack
Rather
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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.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Funny
New York
Humorous
Spiritual
Goat
Bitten
Wild
Least
Likely
Refreshment
York
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Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Concentration
Interruptions
People
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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 / Poet
Funny
Criticism
Critics
Done
Editors
Harem
Seen
Day Know Every Day
Every Day
Day Every Day Done
Themselves
Unable
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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Detest
Irish Writers
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Absence
Dublin
Shoot
Sentenced
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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?
Brendan Behan / Poet
Deprived
Achieved
Cherished
Prospect
Terrors
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Marriage
Blessing
Husband
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Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Men
Determination
Suicide
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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 / Poet
Bible
Cells
Consolation
Lovely
Paper
Smoke
Tasted
Cell
Fellow
Match
Stuffing
Thin
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I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Funeral
Funny Marriage
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Women
Society
Beer
Cheaper
Connected
Irreverence
Stronger
Summer
Winter
Men Women Society
Men Women Food
Anything
Old
Total
Except
Women Men Society
Happier
Makes
Old Men
Old Women
Roads
Safer
Warmer
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