Quotes About Conviviality

If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Quite frankly, so am I, because what I'm about to tell you is a fact. In this country, there is only one thing that can draw a crown without any shadow of a doubt. The answer? Beer. Free beer.

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Beer, that cold amber drink so good for friendship,

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

When you act, you take on the attitudes and the emotions of others. There has to be a release. Most often done in conviviality. That's why there are clubs like the Players, the Friars - in London, the Garrick.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Horace, fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?" He paused, and then translated. "Whom have flowing cups not made eloquent?

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.

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I don't really like to drink. I don't like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I'll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, 'Hey! I did something with you guys!'

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Note to self: Flex a lot at party.)

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.