Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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 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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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