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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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