It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
BRENDAN BEHANMost horror movies are certainly that.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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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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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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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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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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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