A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANI ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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