Tavern Quotes
44 Tavern quotes by 38 unique authors
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Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories.…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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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
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
— Jonathan Swift
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This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern…
— Kirsten Miller
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
— Cormac McCarthy
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…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of…
— Alice Morse Earle
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I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and…
— Al Jarreau
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For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
— Georg Trakl
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
— Samuel Johnson
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Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup…
— Edward Fitzgerald
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I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you, Not only for…
— Roy Croft
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink…
— John Keats
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
— Samuel Johnson
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I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you Not only for…
— Kemis Khan
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Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Edward Moore
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In a tavern or in a honky tonk or on a four-wheel drive tailgate.
— Gretchen Wilson
Who Wrote These Tavern Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 44 Tavern Quotes, led by these top contributors: