A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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