I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
From Brendan Behan
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
I am a daylight atheist.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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