A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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 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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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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