I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHANI was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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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 unable to do it themselves.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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