Brendan Behan Quotes - Page 2

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• I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

  Brendan Behan

  Children, Married, Painter

  "Happily unblessed" by Rose Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

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• I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

  Brendan Behan

  Dark, Catholic, Communist

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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

  Thinking, Irish Writers, Detest

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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

  Funny, Spiritual, New York

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• An author's first duty is to let down his country.

  Brendan Behan

  Country, Firsts, Let Down

  "The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice". Book by Jonathon Green, p. 20, 1984.

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• To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

  Brendan Behan

  Food, Beer, Drunk

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

  Brendan Behan

  Family, Mother, Men

  Quoted in The Wit of Brendan Behan, ed. Sean McCann (1968). In the more famous form, "We are the people our parents warned us about," this appears in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1967).

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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

  Thinking, Funny Marriage, Funeral

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.252, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Brendan Behan

  Advertising Business, Publicity, Public Relations

  In Dominic Behan My Brother Brendan (1965) p. 158

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• Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

  Brendan Behan

  Tasks, May, Results

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• Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

  Brendan Behan

  Critics, Eunuchs

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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

  Cells, Lovely, Paper

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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

  War, Cost Of Living, Mind

  Victor Edward Mitchell, Brendan Behan (1964). “A production book of Brendan Behan's The hostage”

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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

  Men, Role Models, Inspire

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• It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

  Brendan Behan

  Deeds, Forget, Poor

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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

  Talking, People, Way

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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

  Hands, Modern Life, Toss

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• When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

  Brendan Behan

  Fighting, Men, Two

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• Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

  Brendan Behan

  People, Concentration, Interruptions

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• He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

  Brendan Behan

  Years, England, Born

  'Hostage' (1958) act 1

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• Most horror movies are certainly that.

  Brendan Behan

  Cinema, Horror

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• I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

  Brendan Behan

  New York, Home, Devil

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• Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

  Brendan Behan

  Years, Two, Saint

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• Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

  Brendan Behan

  Together, Helping, Profession

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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

  Heart, Weather, Mind

  "Confessions of an Irish Rebel". Book by Brendan Behan, 1967.

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