You made one mistake. You married me.
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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 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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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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