I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHANScream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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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 is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Many 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.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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