I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHANI was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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