God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
BRENDAN BEHANWhatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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