Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
BRENDAN BEHANMany 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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