He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
BRENDAN BEHANI only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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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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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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