Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHANShakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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 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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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