Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
BRENDAN BEHANA man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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