juice quotes

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny. Theyare going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezeduntil the pips squeak. My only doubt is not whether we can squeeze hard enough, but whether there is enough juice.

- Sir Eric Campbell Geddes
  Speech at Cambridge Guildhall,10 Dec.

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter to  Aldous and Maria Huxley,15  Aug.

Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold, And it is harvest; what shall this land produce? A meagre hill of kernels, a runnel of juice; Declension looks from our land, it is old. Therefore let us assemble, dry, gray, spare, And mild as yellow air.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Antique Harvesters'.

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

- SirJohn Suckling
  'Ballad: Upon aWedding'.

The play left a taste of lukewarm parsnip juice.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Play review. Quoted in H Techmann Smart Alex (1976).