What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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