26 Quotes by 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.

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy – the Tankard.