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.
BRENDAN BEHANOne drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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