I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
BRENDAN BEHANIt is a good deed to forget a poor joke
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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