William Maginn Quotes

It is singular that scarcely any tailor who can make a coat well, can make pantaloons.

When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.

Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced.

Much is to be said in favour of toasted cheese for supper.

The wight can tell </br> A melancholy and a merry tale </br> Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.

Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.

A band of gallant souls, who knew </br> The olive wood, the mountain blue, </br> The ration rum, the biscuit black, </br> The long bleak road, the bivouac, </br> The cannon's thunder, and the bays </br> That wave o'er glorious victories, </br> Better than city's midnight dress, </br> Her luxuries, and gaudiness.

If prudes were as pure as they would have us believe, they would not rail so bitterly as they do. We do not thoroughly hate that which we do not thoroughly understand.

Ass-milk, they say, tastes exceedingly like woman's. No wonder.

Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.

People may talk as they like, but after all, London is London.

Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong, if the claret be good. The milky taste of good claret coheses admirably with strawberries — somewhat like cream.

Claret should always be decanted.

The finest of all times for flirting is a wedding. They are all agog, poor things!

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.