Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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