Ale Quotes

“It comes in pints?”

— Peter Jackson

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

— Washington Irving

Homer no function beer well without.

— Anonymous

“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.”

— Joseph Livesey

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

— Lord Byron

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

— A. E. Housman

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

— Robert Burns

Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

— William Shakespeare

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

— Aesop

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale,…

— George Henry Borrow

“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”

— Tom Acitelli

I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale!…

— Tom Petty

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

— George Farquhar

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

— William Butler Yeats

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

— Thomas Nash

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

— Martin Luther

When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For…

— William Shakespeare

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better…

— John Gay

I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, "Oh, okay, so it's just one…

— Sheena Iyengar

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good…

— Kathleen Winsor

Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who…

— Matthias de l'Obel

Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain…

— Edgar Allan Poe

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some…

— Steven Morrissey

Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers…

— James Joyce

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all…

— Robert A. Burton

It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale…

— Ragnar Lodbrok

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating…

— Agnes Repplier

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest,…

— John Clare

Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?"…

— Libba Bray

Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton…

— A. E. Housman

I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and…

— Pusha T

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

— Kin Hubbard

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

— Greta Garbo

Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

— Steve Kluger

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

— William Shakespeare

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

— A. E. Housman