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.
BRENDAN BEHANEvery cripple has his own way of walking.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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