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.
BRENDAN BEHANI 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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