1.
Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
Bill Bailey
2.
I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
Jimmy Carr
4.
You meet a better class of person in pubs.
Oliver Reed
5.
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems
Philip Larkin
6.
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!
J. K. Rowling
8.
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth
9.
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
Joseph O'Connor
10.
I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.
Pauline Quirke
11.
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
12.
In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!
Jenson Button
13.
Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.
Nathan Lowell
14.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
Alex Kapranos
15.
Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.
Frank Carson
16.
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
17.
In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.
Barbara Holland
18.
Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
19.
You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.
Aasif Mandvi