There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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