Charles Dickens Quotes, Beer Quotes, Glasses Quotes

"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."

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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."

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Tags : Alan D. Eames Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Beer Quotes

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Beer Quotes

I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Beer Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Beer Quotes , Remembers Everything Quotes

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

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After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Hate Quotes , Beer Quotes

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Beer Quotes , World Quotes

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

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Tags : Al Purdy Quotes , Beer Quotes , Drunk Quotes

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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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.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Beer Quotes

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Running Quotes , Beer Quotes

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Beer Quotes

Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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