Pubs Quotes - Page 2

• Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

  John Hillaby

  Church, Village, Priests

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• A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

  Jason Flemyng

  Growing Up, Community, Pillars

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

  Peter O'Toole

  Husband, Home, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

  Rose Byrne

  Beach, Believe, Artist

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

  Hugh Dancy

  Paris, Culture, Dublin

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• There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

  Ellie Goulding

  Country, Voice, Gigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Church, Visionaries, Brilliant

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• I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.

  Chris Vance

  House, Missing, Family And Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

  Peter DeFazio

  Years, Oregon, Diversity

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• I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

  Alan Davies

  Grief, Want, Way

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• I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Guy, Mouths, Quiet

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• You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.

  Jason Flemyng

  Phones, Doors, Bars

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Good peo­ple drink good beer.  Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer.  Think about it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beer, Thinking, Bars

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• Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Talking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

  Samantha Mumba

  School, Laughing, Want

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• Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

  Richard Thompson

  Death, Heaven, Bartender

  Song: God Loves A Drunk, Album: Rumor and Sigh

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• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Beer, Alcohol, Great Simpsons

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Homer's Odyssey", 1990), www.imdb.com. (1989 - ).

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• I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

  Jo Brand

  Nice, Moving, Thinking

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• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

  George Orwell

  Children, Beer, Gathering

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

  Brian Cowen

  School, Thinking, People

  "Hot Press" Interview, hotpress.com, May 23, 2007.

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• I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

  Pete McCarthy

  Reading, Library, Study

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.258, Macmillan

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

  Simon Hoggart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

  Max Irons

  Thinking, Costumes, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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