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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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