"I've read in many a novel, that unless……" — Charles Stuart Calverley
"I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls."
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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 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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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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More Dreary Quotes
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
— Alan Watts
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
— Edith Hamilton
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the…
— William Wordsworth
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home…
— Johannes Kepler
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment,…
— Anthony Hopkins
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
— Terence McKenna
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