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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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