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“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.”

Window Boat Grass Drivers Contracts Engineers Builder Skip Cutters Lorry Barmen

Author:Neal Asher

“A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."”

Long Humor Funny Faces Law Walks Existence Aspect Horse Bars Protected Barmen

Author:Bill Bailey

“An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"”

Looks Kind Humor Funny Walks Jokes Bars Englishmen Irishmen Scotsmen Barmen

Author:Frank Carson

“A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."”

Humor Funny Walks Bars Barmen

Author:Tommy Cooper

“The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover.”

Seems Government Party Too Much Truth Is Drunk Enjoyed Uncomfortable Attacking Hangover Booze Lynching Queries Barmen

Author:Sean O'Grady

“And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.”

People World Persons Has Beens Ends Eye Broken Type Calling Glasses Crowds Bars Broken Glass Glass Half Full Barmen

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.”

Way Important Century Tradition Including Usa Thinker Confession Twentieth Century Barmen

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.”

Men Long Rooms Deals Hair Familiar Tall Old Man Gray Beard Gray Hair Barmen

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.”

Listening Becoming Glasses Impression Rags Filthy Barmen

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. As Harry, Ron, and Hermione drew closer, the barman drew his cloak more tightly around his neck and walked away, leaving the shorter man to fumble with something in his arms. They were barely feet from him when Harry realized who the man was. “Mundungus!”

Men Littles Two Three Feet Arms Rain Standing Leaving Glasses Necks Exception Tall Cloaks Pubs Hog Hermione Broomsticks Squinting Barmen Ron And Hermione

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.”

Locals Friendly Omniscient Barmen

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.”

Way Years Lying Speak Wonder Cases Heard Magazines Journalist Articles Pubs Barmen

Author:Peter Costello