Pubs Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You meet a better class of person in pubs.

  Oliver Reed

  Class, Persons

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good people drink good beer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Drinking, Beer

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

  Paul McCartney

  Play, Band, Stuff

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

  David Soul

  Football, Team, Heart

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

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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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• Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Mean

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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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