Top 100 Pub Quotes
#1. I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the next it would be a British pub, and everyone gets in a fight.
Graham Elliot
#2. I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.
Nick Frost
#4. It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.
Stefania Mattana
#5. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.
Susan Meier
#6. I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
Pete McCarthy
#7. My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs
#8. You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart
#9. James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band ... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
Billy Corgan
#10. I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
Rita Ora
#11. The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You look just like that guy from Twilight'. Every time she came up, she said something like, 'You literally could be his brother'. But she never put two and two together.
Robert Pattinson
#12. Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He glanced up at the pictures on the pub wall: Alexander Graham Bell, Busby the bird and Sam Spade. The picture of Bogart made Jamie want to put a fag in his mouth
Nasser Hashmi
#14. I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
Kate Winslet
#15. THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it.
Neil Gaiman
#16. I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.
Harry Treadaway
#17. Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
David Hewson
#18. My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
Mary Roach
#19. Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
Bill Bailey
#20. If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.
Michael Bloomberg
#22. Never make an excuse for going to the pub, save it for leaving.
Benny Bellamacina
#23. If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you.
Benny Bellamacina
#24. You're in Ireland the summer after you left college and you're drinking at a pub near the castle where every day bus loads of English and American tourists come to kiss the Blarney Stone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#25. Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
Ned Beauman
#26. We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston.
Dennis Lehane
#27. Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
Bryn Terfel
#28. Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!
J.K. Rowling
#29. These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.
Steven J. Lawson
#30. Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister.
Neil Gaiman
#31. I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said to me at a pub, "Do you come here often?" Thats an awful line.
Emma Bunton
#32. I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
Sally Phillips
#33. Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!
Bill Bailey
#34. Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
Bill Bailey
#35. I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."
Dion DiMucci
#36. I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it I never went for a pint. I went to a pub to get f**ked up. If it was just going for a pint that would be ok but once I start I just can't stop.
Ozzy Osbourne
#37. John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude
Ringo Starr
#38. Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
Neil Gaiman
#39. My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.
Jon Richardson
#40. Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does.
Gurinder Chadha
#41. A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.
Tommy Cooper
#42. The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.
Sean Pertwee
#43. I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
Regina Spektor
#44. When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."
Hamilton Leithauser
#45. A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.
Jason Flemyng
#46. I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
Joe Cocker
#47. It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints.
Tana French
#48. What shall I do, today? Visit the pub?
Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird
flies past. Where is it headed? It's out of
sight already. The drunkenness of a bird in the
burning azure. The melancholy of a man
in the cool shadow of a mosque.
Omar Khayyam
#49. England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
William S. Burroughs
#50. More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.
Jonathan Ross
#51. He seemed to be having trouble remembering the steps, for he was pumping my arm and counting under his breath (one, two, three), and his breath smelled like the open maws of the pub cellars that grapes on Whitchurch pavements on delivery day. Beer.
Lorna Sage
#52. The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ocean air charges its way inside. It's as if Cuchulainn's raging soul had passed through the doorway.
Laura Treacy Bentley
#53. No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich.
Flann O'Brien
#54. Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
Kevin Whately
#55. Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
That's the fate of every Magpie
While Mam perfects her game show skills
Giving talks at the WI
John Walter Bratton
#56. My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.
Jason Flemyng
#57. We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
Michael Hutchence
#58. I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub.
Matthew Lewis
#59. People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
Theresa May
#60. I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.
Dhani Harrison
#61. My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
Rita Ora
#62. In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#63. You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.
Sid Waddell
#64. The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.
Hamilton Leithauser
#65. Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
Sarah Rees Brennan
#66. I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.
Pauline Quirke
#67. The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
Brian D. McLaren
#68. I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.
Adrian McKinty
#69. At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football.
John Grisham
#70. When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.
Steve McQueen
#71. Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
Banksy
#72. Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.
Don Johnson
#73. He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.
Caitlin Moran
#75. In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.
Jim Butcher
#76. I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
Kevin Spacey
#77. I could sit in a pub and tell you all the things that are written in this book but you wouldn't fucking listen.
Banksy
#78. When she sings that song you're with that elderly couple in that pub in Deptford and the mundane becomes romantic and beautiful and I think that's probably the great thing about any sort of paintings or music or something, is just when nothing becomes everything
Jools Holland
#79. I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese.
Johnathon Schaech
#80. I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.
Max Irons
#81. A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
Jeff Lindsay
#82. Good. Now let's go down to the pub and meet the townsfolk," Iain said.
"Bar," Euann corrected, just to be contrary.
"Let's go down to the pub before I hit ya with a bar," Iain said.
Michelle M. Pillow
#83. All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
Samantha Mumba
#84. Take me now, Luke, or I'm going to walk out of this pub and find the first man who will.
Katee Robert
#85. I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.
Martha Grimes
#86. Had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.
Frank Bruno
#88. I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.
Ned Beauman
#89. Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
John Hillaby
#90. You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
Eric Idle
#91. You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.
Jason Flemyng
#92. Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
Lesley Gore
#93. Vimes nodded glumly. It was amazing how many people were prepared to do business with a man they'd met in a pub.
Terry Pratchett
#94. I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh
#95. I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few
Benny Bellamacina
#96. Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
Jack Kerouac
#97. I love putting on a red lip. I don't do it so much for events - somehow, I don't seem to get it right - but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.
Lily James
#98. I thought about my goal of having a beer at a bar with an age-appropriate friend and decided a pub was even better, because I really didn't want to be near douche bags trying to copulate.
Matthew Quick
#99. Bullshit," says Viv. "Did you have your eyes open the other night in the pub? Mabe, I've never, ever seen him so happy and the way he was looking at you made even me melt. He's in love with you."
"No, he isn't."
"Yes, he is. It's just unfortunate that he's a fuckwit as well.
Lily Morton
#100. Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
Rita Ora
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