An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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