beer quotes

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

- (Enoch) Arnold Bennett
Quoted in Derek Watson Music Quotations (1991).

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

- George Crabbe
  Inebriety, a Poem, pt.1, l.132^5.

'Did you ever taste beer?' 'I had a sip of it once,'said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!'cried Mr. Swiveller, raising his eyestothe ceiling.'She never tasted ititcan't betasted in a sip!'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^1 The Old Curiosity Shop, ch.57.

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?

- Maria Edgeworth
  Castle Rackrent,'History of Sir Conolly Rackrent'.

The morning comes to consciousness Of faint stale smells of beer From the sawdust-trampled street.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Preludes', pt.2.

Yo no digo por eso que el te   no sea saludable†cuando duelen las tripas†pero al cabo no pasa de ser agua caliente; so  lo pod|a habernos venido de Inglaterra, que como all | son herejes, ni tendra  n vino, ni bueyes cebones. I'm not saying that tea is not healthy†when you have a stomach ache†but, all in all, it is only hot water; it could only come from the English, who, being heretics as they are, probably have no wine or good beer.

- Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
  Contigo pan y cebolla, act1.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where, And carried half-way home, or near, Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.62.

Life isn't all beer and skittlesbut beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

-Ted (Edward James) Hughes
  Tom Brown's Schooldays, pt.1, ch.2.

I'm only here for the beer.

- Ros Levenstein
British advertising slogan for Double Diamond beer.

Bier,Tabak und Musik. Da haben wir IhrVaterland! Beer, tobacco, and music.There we havethe Fatherland!

-Thomas Mann
  Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), vol.1.

No more boomerang No more spear; Now all civilized Colour-bar and beer.

-Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska
  My People,'No More Boomerang'.

Their beer was strong; their wine was port; Their meal was large; their grace was short. They gave the poor the remnant meat, Just when it grew not fit to eat.

- Matthew Prior
  'An Epitaph', l.29^32.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Proserpine. Candida, act 3.

   What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia.

- Rev Sydney Smith
  In the Edinburgh Review, quoted in H Pearson The Smith of Smiths (1934), ch.11.

Life is not all Beer and Skittles. The inherent tragedy of things works itself out from white to black and blacker, and the poor things of a day look ruefully on. Does it shake my cast-iron faith? I cannot say it does. I believe in an ultimate decency of things: ay, and if I woke in hell, should still believe it!

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Letter to Sidney Colvin, 23 Aug.

An Irishmanislined with copper, and thebeercorrodesit. But whiskey polishesthe copperand isthesavingof him.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Life on the Mississippi, ch.23.