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.
BRENDAN BEHANWhen I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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