Shakespeare Quote by Samuel G Engel

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

— Norman Douglas

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they…

— Henry David Thoreau

The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals…

— Alice Morse Earle

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he…

— Johannes Brahms

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

When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.

— Archpoet

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

— Dana Perino

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

“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

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Jonathan Swift

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

— Samuel Johnson