I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANGod forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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