Brendan Behan American Quotations

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

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

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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

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

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