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Quotes By Brendan Behan

No man can discover his own talents.

Brendan Behan
Discover Talents

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Behan
MarriageAction Demand

I wish I’d been a mixed infant.

Brendan Behan
Infant Mixed Wish

I am a daylight atheist.

Brendan Behan
Atheist Daylight

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Brendan Behan
Depressed Minds Words

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Brendan Behan
GoodForget Poor

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Brendan Behan
Themselves Today Wasted

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Brendan Behan
FearDozen Mugs

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
AloneGoodBit

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan
Judge Left Pretty

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Brendan Behan
Desire Greatly Guts

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.

Brendan Behan
Seen Situation Worse

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Brendan Behan
GoodExcept Notice

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
DeathAbsence Came

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
DeathAbsence Shoot
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