Every cripple has his own way of walking.
BRENDAN BEHANWhen two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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