#tavern

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts. ↗

— Samuel G. Engel

#nor #shakespeare #tavern

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

#assembling #charter #conducted #evening #habit

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#contrived #good #happiness #man #much

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#madness #place #sold #tavern #where

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

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#found #friends #his #home #man

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. ↗

— Edward Moore

#against #ay #city #congregation #every

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith #ivan-karamazov #life #logic #meaning-of-life