Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Charles Stuart Calverley
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Life is with such all beer and skittles.
They are not difficult to please
About their victuals. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Meaning, however, is no great matter. — Charles Stuart Calverley
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. — Charles Stuart Calverley
But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake? — Charles Stuart Calverley
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny ... — Charles Stuart Calverley
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? — Charles Stuart Calverley
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer ... — Charles Stuart Calverley
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. — Charles Stuart Calverley
The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard. — Charles Stuart Calverley
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees ... — Charles Stuart Calverley