I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
BRENDAN BEHANAn author’s first duty is to let down his country.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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