Ale Quotes
57 quotes by 47 authors
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Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good…
— George Henry Borrow
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through…
— Brigit of Kildare
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
— Nicholas Culpeper
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun…
— James Joyce
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
— George Farquhar
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Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to…
— Matthias de l'Obel
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Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
— Kin Hubbard
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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.…
— A. E. Housman
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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!…
— Kenneth Grahame
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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…
— Kathleen Winsor
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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…
— Tom Petty
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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…
— Michael Jackson
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.
— William Shakespeare
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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,"…
— Charles Dickens
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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
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
— A. E. Housman
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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?…
— A. E. Housman
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Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
— Greta Garbo
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So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale.
— Reginald De Koven
Who Wrote These Ale Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 57 Ale Quotes, led by these top contributors: