I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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 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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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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