When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHANHe was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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