Pubs Quotes

• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Beer, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

  William Blake

  Beer, Church, Common

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• You meet a better class of person in pubs.

  Oliver Reed

  Class, Persons

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• In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Feelings, Want

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.123, Granta Books

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• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Ambition, Sleep

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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• Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• Good people drink good beer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Drinking, Beer

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

  Barbara Holland

  Red, Argument, Foreign Policy

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

  Henry Lawson

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

  Paul McCartney

  Play, Band, Stuff

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

  Frank Carson

  Two, Passing, Wells

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• I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

  Jilly Cooper

  Simple, Secret, Different

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

  Peter Kay

  Awkward, Toilets, Stranger

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• Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Three

  "Is It Bill Bailey? (Episode 1)". Stand up / sketch comedy series by Bill Bailey, February 20, 1998.

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• Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

  Jack Kerouac

  Independent, Men, Paris

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Drinking, Clothes, Alcohol

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

  J. P. Donleavy

  Funny, Death, Beer

  Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

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