Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHANScream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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 have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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