Pubs Quotes · Page 3

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

— Joseph O'Connor

Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

— Bill Bailey

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs.…

— Russell T Davies

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

— Frank Carson

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

— Simon Hoggart

I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

— Dov Davidoff

People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.

— Luke Evans

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

— Martha Gellhorn

You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very…

— Sean Bean

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations'…

— Matthew Rhys

I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses…

— John Tiffany

You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs…

— Jeremy Clarkson

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,…

— Manfred Mann

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs…

— Andrew Flintoff

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia,…

— Simon Hoggart

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We…

— Ross Kemp

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was…

— Louis C. K

I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I…

— Vinnie Jones

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when…

— Eddie Marsan

You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like…

— Richey Edwards

Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I…

— Bill Bailey

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the…

— Bob Dylan

“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes…

— Robert Stacy McCain

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as…

— Norman Foster

I think human beings thrive on communication, and pubs and restaurants are a great way of communicating, a great way of enjoying…

— Rick Stein

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.

— Pauline Quirke

Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game…

— John Walter Bratton

On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting,…

— Joe Orton

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

— Eric Idle

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

— Steven Morrissey

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.…

— J. P. Donleavy

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

— Guillermo del Toro

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

— Jez Butterworth

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm just getting to know the local pubs. I do enjoy going out in east London.

— Charlotte Ritchie

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

— Edgar Wright

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

— Pete McCarthy

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

— Jilly Cooper

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

— Alex Kapranos

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights…

— Michael Bloomberg