"I know you've been married to the same……" — Charles Stuart Calverley
"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive."
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Charles Stuart Calverley
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13 Quotes by Charles Stuart Calverley
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The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.
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Meaning, however, is no great matter.
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Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and…
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Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...
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But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?
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But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...
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The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had…
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The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted…
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I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your…
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I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't…
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Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything…
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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
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