Beer Quotes - Page 33

• Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

  John Ciardi

  Civilization, Alcohol, Inseparable

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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Drinking, Men, Sobriety

  Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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• When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

  J. P. Donleavy

  Funny, Death, Dublin

  Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Dust, Sky, Proud

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, House, Empty

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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• They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

  Michael Jackson

  Humorous, Labels, Fart

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• The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

  Kenneth Grahame

  Moles, Labels, Bottles

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Boys, Men

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.133

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• She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Tired, Night, Riding

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.654, Chicago Review Press

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• I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Angel, Long

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• Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

  Michael Jackson

  Chocolate, Style, India

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• How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

  W. C. Fields

  Devil, Encounters, Firsts

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• So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

  Michael Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Glasses

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• I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste.

  David White

  Waste

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• Would I were in an alehouse in London.

  William Shakespeare

  London

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

  Charles Dickens

  Glasses, Two, Ale

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• Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Names, Gentleman, Letters

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• I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hardship, Sincerity

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Cups, Folks

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• I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

  Robert Bolt

  Rain, Good Luck, Wings

  Robert Bolt, Tim Bezant (1996). “A Man for All Seasons: A Play of Sir Thomas More”, p.57, Heinemann

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• All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.

  Marv Levy

  Games, Hype, Foam

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• They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Drunk, Body

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• Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

  Dave Barry

  Four, Mines, Havens

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Crush, Earth, Matter

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drunk, Important, Endurance

  Charles Bukowski (1984). “Barfly: the continuing saga of Henry Chinaski”, Paget Pr

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