Porter quotes

It's a regular holiday to themall porter and skittles.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.41.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porterand have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would theyall know it was me?

-J(ames) P(atrick) Donleavy
  The Ginger Man, ch.31.

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

- Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
  'By Strauss'.

I believe that people are like portmanteauxpacked with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the UltimateTrain and away they rattle.

-Beauchamp
  Bliss and Other Stories,'Je Ne Parle Pas Fran c° ais'.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthis'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.

- Florence Nightingale
  Notes on Nursing.

   And now the curse has come upon us, because I have personally met in the streets of Ireland persons who are clearly out of Synge's plays. They talk and dress like that, and damn the drink they'll swally but the mug of porter in the long nights after Samhain.

-Cruise
  The Best of Myles.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom and education

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.2.