Taverns Quotes - Page 2

• No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend’s wife; now she devils me constantly. I should—

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Should Have, Wife

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Morning, Food

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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• When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.

  Nat Hentoff

  Virginia, Secret, Firsts

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

  Gregory Orr

  Talking, Mermaid, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Weather, Pieces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.37

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

  Frances Trollope

  Dine In, Silence, House

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.218

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• That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stones, Way, Temples

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Class, Drawing

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Jail, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.112, e-artnow

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• Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Noble, Topics

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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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• Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

  Jon Stewart

  Wine, White, Great Day

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• Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

  John Adams

  Country, Dozen, Disease

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• Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Doors, News

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Drinking, School

  "Peasants". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

  Matt Groening

  Places To Go, Frightened

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

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• We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Believe, Names

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• I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

  George Bernard Shaw

  Should Have, Fool, England

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cooking, Roaches, Noble

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Morning, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1823). “The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator”, p.177

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• I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

  Henry Mayhew

  People, Principles, Evening

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• I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

  Al Jarreau

  Doors, Proud, Next

  Source: www.pbs.org

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