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.
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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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