Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHANI saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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