Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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