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Results of search for Author: Brendan Behan - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 12 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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 (1923 - 1964)

Results from Classic Quotes:

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964), Hostage (1958)
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest.: Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" 1984
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
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 (1923 - 1964)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

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 (1923 - 1964)
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)

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