Quotes About Conviviality

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale. It may be a year before you see another.

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

I think everyone knows that I'm the type of person who can have a good time without drinking.

My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

You always get one or two by themselves in London pubs. That's the difference between a pub and a bar, Banbury explained. Pubs are about conviviality and community, meeting mates. Bars are for being alone in, or for meeting a stranger.

I'll drink to that," Nina said. "You'll drink to anything." "Indeed I will. It's one of my best traits.

Jesus has a few pints wi' His mates?" asks

At the end of the debate, unable to convert or kill one another, they concluded the way most Mongol celebrations concluded, with everyone simply too drunk to continue.

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends 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.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.