I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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