Quote by Brendan Behan
Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wo

Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. – Brendan Behan

Other quotes by Brendan Behan

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

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alone
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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 in my absence. – Brendan Behan

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Death
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I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I dont respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air. – Roone Arledge

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I dont want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court. – Vince Carter

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respect

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day. – Robert B. Laughlin

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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it. – Vanessa Paradis

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Those who own much have much to fear. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. – Robert Ballard

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legal

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Ridicule

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Italian proverb

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