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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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