Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANOther people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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