Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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 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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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