"Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body……" — George Saintsbury
"Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy."
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George Saintsbury
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15 Quotes by George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury has 15 quotes on this site.
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style…
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both…
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when…
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but…
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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More Alcohol Quotes
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
— Michael Badnarik
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to…
— Dave Barry
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision…
— Xavier Becerra
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,…
— Brendan Behan
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
— Robert Benchley
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
— George Best
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
— Humphrey Bogart
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
— Erma Bombeck
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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