“ Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an inn. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers Seem full of welcomes. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2K
“ Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale. ”
- John Clare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ You may go to Carlisle's, and to Almack's too; and I'll give you my head if you find such a host, for coffee, tea, chocolate, butter and toast; how he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, and how civil to folk he ne'er saw in his life. ”
- Christopher Anstey- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! — holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round! ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
- 1.7K
“ He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins… ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.1K
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