That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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 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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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