I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
BRENDAN BEHANPound notes are the best religion in the world.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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