It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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