"The only thing I envy in young people…" — Brendan Behan
"The only thing I envy in young people is their livers."
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64 Quotes by Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan has 64 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,…
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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…
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody…
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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…
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More Envy Quotes
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— Aristotle
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
— Aeschylus
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
— Aeschylus
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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eubie Blake
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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