Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Life #Beer #Skittles
“I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Dream
“Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Cat #Coal #Boots
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Song #Remember #Lows
“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.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Home #Soul #Facts
“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Daughter #Hair #Lines
“The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees...”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Eggs #Doors #Wife
“But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Use #Might #Disaster
“But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Coffee #Berries #Used
“Precious to meâ€”it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Blessed #Beer #Dinner
“Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Beer #Names #Years
“Meaning, however, is no great matter.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Matter
“The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Grief #Heart #Alcohol
“Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.”
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Knives #Mad #Wife

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