Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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