I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics 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.
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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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