A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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