I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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