Sentence examples for the drinking classes from inspiring English sources

Also, the drinking classes discovered Cuba.

Oscar Wilde called work "the curse of the drinking classes".

Government restrictions of hours for alcohol sales effected in April were equally unpopular with the drinking classes.

Wilde's startling paradoxes ("Work is the curse of the drinking classes") turned upside down the unthinking clichés I used to hear.

Or that Radclyffe Hall danced cheek-to-cheek with her lovers at the Hambone club in Ham Yard, beneath a sign that bore the Oscar Wilde aphorism "work is the curse of the drinking classes".

Can't you look at me and say something civil?" For all its allegorical subtlety and atmospheric exactitude, for all its familiarity with the fatuous bravado of the drinking classes, Hangover Square derives its most powerful charge from the portrayal of George Harvey Bone, a lost soul of the time, perhaps of all time.

"Work is the curse of the drinking class -- Oscar Wilde," scrolls across the screen of the phone.

It has also been said that work is the curse of the drinking class.

Here are a few footnotes to "When Work Was the Curse of the Drinking Class" (Dec. 29), about the bartender at the old Astor Bar: It is my understanding that Vincent Astor leased the site to my great-step-uncle, William Muschenheim.

My version of Facebook was called "Sober Chauffeur, a Discrete Service for the Drinking Class".

There was no better venue to pursue his inquiries than in the QMC senior common room bar, or at the regular soirées of the Odds and Sods Club, whose ostensible purpose was to promote both intra-collegiality and inter-disciplinarity, at least among the academic drinking classes.