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I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. -- Jilly Cooper
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Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at. -- Charles Stross
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. -- Hugh Dancy
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. -- Simon Hoggart
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
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
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university. -- Ellie Goulding
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot. -- Rose Byrne
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!! -- Bill Bailey
Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format' -- Bill Bailey
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. -- Eric Idle
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. -- John Hillaby
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting -- Dorian Yates
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. -- Oliver Reed
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. -- Dean Karnazes
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. -- Dylan Thomas
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me? -- J.P. Donleavy
If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not. -- Tom Kerridge
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. -- P. D. James
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
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. -- George Orwell
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet. -- Dominic Monaghan
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does. -- Shane MacGowan
I don't go to pubs. -- Peter Capaldi
I love pubs and I love pub culture. -- Jodie Whittaker
A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars. -- Heston Blumenthal
People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay. -- Luke Evans
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. -- Jez Butterworth
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. -- J.P. Donleavy
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs. -- Kevin Spacey
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs. -- Bonnie Tyler
Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world. -- Bill Bryson
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs. -- Chris Vance
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
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. -- David Hockney
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene. -- William Finnegan
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. -- Ranulph Fiennes
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance. -- Norman Foster
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands. -- Manfred Mann
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes. -- Paul Weller
The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn. -- Eddie Marsan
You meet a better class of person in pubs, -- Oliver Reed
A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars -- Heston Blumenthal
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems -- Philip Larkin
Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close? -- Richard Thompson
I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity. -- Carl Froch
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I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots. -- Dov Davidoff
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange. -- Edgar Wright
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs. -- Guillermo del Toro
In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs. -- Martha Gellhorn
In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment. -- Tom Shields
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs -- Dylan Thomas
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky. -- Russell T Davies
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
The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool. -- Derek Taylor
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible. -- Richard Branson
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners. -- Harvey Milk
Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not. -- Karen Marie Moning
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal. -- Jeremy Clarkson
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. -- George Orwell
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

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