I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
BRENDAN BEHANWhat the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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 man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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 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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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