An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
BRENDAN BEHANNew York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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 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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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