quotes about Taverns
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When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.
-- Archpoet -
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.
-- Dana Perino -
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.
-- Flora Tristan -
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling
-- Henry Mayhew -
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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 on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.
-- Kirsten MillerSource : Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
-- Omar Khayyam -
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!
-- Pietro AretinoSource : Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.
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A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.
-- Randy Travis -
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
-- Thomas Hood -
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To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.
-- Volker Ullrich -
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
-- George Edward Moore