When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
BRENDAN BEHANAn author’s first duty is to let down his country.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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