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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
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Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
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Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan 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
No man can discover his own talents.
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
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
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Brendan Behan
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
Brendan Behan
You made one mistake. You married me.
Brendan Behan
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
Brendan Behan
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
Brendan Behan
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
Brendan Behan
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
Brendan Behan
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Brendan Behan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Brendan Behan
