Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Grief, Heart, Beer

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Dream

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.12

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• I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Song, Remember, Lows

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.30

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• I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Home, Soul, Facts

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.11

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• But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Use, Might, Disaster

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.58

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• Life is with such all beer and skittles.
  They are not difficult to please
  About their victuals.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Life, Beer, Skittles

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.59

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• Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Cat, Coal, Boots

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.41

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• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Daughter, Hair, Lines

  Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”

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• The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Doors, Eggs, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.48

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• But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Coffee, Berries, Used

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Blessed, Beer, Beef

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.58

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• Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Beer, Years, Names

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.170

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• Meaning, however, is no great matter.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Matter

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.108

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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