There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
BRENDAN BEHANWhatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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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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Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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