Brendan Francis Quotes

Most popular Brendan Francis Quotes

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Francis quote.
A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

quotations

Fame is failure disguised as money. - Brendan Francis quote.
Fame is failure disguised as money.
— Brendan Francis The Irish Digest

fame

Pound notes are the best religion in the world. - Brendan Francis quote.
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
— Brendan Francis The Wit of Brendan Behan

religion

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Brendan Francis quote.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

problem-solving

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. - Brendan Francis quote.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

fear aspiration

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis quote.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

listening love men and women

A general bit of shooting.....takes the mind off the cost of living. - Brendan Francis quote.
A general bit of shooting.....takes the mind off the cost of living.
— Brendan Francis

war

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Francis quote.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
— Brendan Francis

Ireland Israel

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. - Brendan Francis quote.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

loneliness

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis quote.
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
— Brendan Francis
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. - Brendan Francis quote.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
— Brendan Francis
Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt.  But what man does not run to them when he needs their services? - Brendan Francis quote.
Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt.  But what man does not run to them when he needs their services?
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

politicians

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 Francis quote.
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 Francis

critics

When I came back to Dublin I was court martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Francis quote.
When I came back to Dublin I was court martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— Brendan Francis

law

If you have a talent, use it in every way possible.  Don't hoard it.  Don't dole it out like a miser.  Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. - Brendan Francis quote.
If you have a talent, use it in every way possible.  Don't hoard it.  Don't dole it out like a miser.  Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

talent

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves. - Brendan Francis quote.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves.
— Brendan Francis Brendan Behan: A Life

critics

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
— Brendan Francis The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations

fear courage