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Quotes About Pubs

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
~ Jez Butterworth
Er erzählte mir Geschichten, und vor allem ging er mit mir spazieren. Er zeigte mir Straßen und Plätze, Quais und Kanäle, die Friedhöfe, die Hafenplätze und Lagerhäuser, die unsicheren Viertel, die Kneipen - so viele Ecken von Paris, die ich nicht kannte.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.
~ Lewis Capaldi
When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to Brixton and Herne Hill. Herne Hill is a tiny place that is ridiculously overstocked with lovely pubs.
~ Nish Kumar
On evenings like this, when the streets below were filled with couples strolling, and laughing people spilled out of pubs, already planning meals, nights out, trips to clubs, something ached inside me; something
~ Jojo Moyes
A direct question in the company of men is in most contexts a sort of insult, something you learn young in Sligo bars.
~ Sebastian Barry
Oh the torn up ticket stubs From a hundred thousand mugs Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain And the carparks going up And they're pulling down the pubs And its just another bloody rainy day
~ Shane MacGowan
In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.
~ Peter DeFazio
Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
~ Bill O'Reilly
In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.
~ Till Lindemann
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
~ Simon Kuper
Pubs were one of the things Dougless liked best about England, as they were family oriented, but you could still have a drink.
~ Jude Deveraux
But a Briton, when he wants to sup ale, must find his way to the Dog and Duck, the Goose and Firkin, the Flying Spoon, or the Spotted Dog.
~ Bill Bryson
I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
~ Lewis Capaldi
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.
~ Alan Davies
Most of the pubs had barred Des, but he came in to the Tiger bar and he points to me and says, 'And you, out! I want you by the back of the car park.' So I obliged him and proceeded to kick the poor cunt all around the car park, he ended up in hospital for a week! Eventually, when he came out of hospital he said that I was the best thing that had happened to him, I'd cured him!
~ Stephen Richards
I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.
~ Drew Barrymore
From where I sit it today, pirate country starts about ten miles east of me. Foulness, Paglesham and the Blackwater. To this day, pubs out there go silent when a stranger walks in. You're standing on their dirt, after all. A life on the ocean waves is one thing, but blood and soil are entirely another.
~ Bruce Sterling
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
I worked in pubs when I was younger. My nickname was Morticia.
~ Suranne Jones
Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.
~ Eric Bristow
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
He said, We'll get the knitting club onto it. I beg your pardon? We've got a dozen vampires with not enough to do, who can go out at night. They can eavesdrop on conversations, get talking to people in pubs late at night. Think of them as your Baker Street irregulars.
~ Nancy Warren
Thir no fuckin swaggerin aroond Leith, fuckin well surein thair no. A bunch ay fuckin sheepshaggers wi thair diddy European Cup Winner's Cup, comin doon here, drinkin in oor pubs, chattin up oor... Franco hesitates, looks at Tommy. Tommy can't resist it. — Sheep?
~ Irvine Welsh