I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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 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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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