A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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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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