There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by…

“As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which…

— Samuel Johnson

“It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

— Samuel Johnson

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the…

— John Clare

“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poe’s Tavern, miss. That’s what you said?”

— Kathy Reichs

“Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled…

— John Keats

“I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps of larger…

— Daphne du Maurier

“One smile on the battlefield is worth more than a dozen in the tavern" Talon Of Tallasian Zachania”

— Joseph Henry Gaines

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

— Cormac McCarthy

“The tavern keeper, a wiry man with a sharp-nosed face, round, prominent ears and a receding hairline that combined to give him a rodentlike…

— John Flanagan

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

— Jonathan Swift

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.

— Samuel G Engel