It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
BRENDAN BEHANI 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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