Alcohol Quote by H.E. Bates

“Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once…

— Kate Atkinson

“A few minutes later Agnes had reached the market and was battling through the throng. She stepped over rotting offal and cabbage leaves to…

— Janet Gleeson

“Her small bedroom was decorated with cheerfully embroidered samplers, which she had stitched herself, and a shelf containing an intricate shellwork tableau. In her…

— Janet Gleeson

“Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes and salad, passed a…

— Betty MacDonald

“She has an eye like a man-eating fish”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“You must be excessively hungry, Mr. Merritt,” she said graciously. Mademoiselle would have been so proud of her. “Perhaps you are not a morning…

— Mona Karel

“She cut a small piece of the gravalax and put it on a piece of black bread, daintily spooned a bit of dill sauce…

— Janet Fitch

“So there was a martini- something he hadn't tasted since college- and there was wine, and there was a dinner most remarkable for a…

— Julia Glass

“This fish, slowly gasping his last, looked very edible.”

— Michael Grant

“When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back…

— Dennis Lehane

“Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that…

— George R.R. Martin

“Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not…

— Arthur Machen