When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHANI ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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 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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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