Time Quote by Poppy Z. Brite

“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on…

— Garry Crystal

“London is good for two things — excellent Scotch and leaving.I miss them both, especially as I often partake of one while doing the…

— Karen Hawkins

“All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing…

— Émile Zola

“We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I've never seen a world So festering with damnation. I have left Rings of beer on every alehouse table From the salt sea-coast across…

— Christopher Fry

“The hoarse church-bells of London ring; The hoarser horns of London croak; The poor brown lives of London cling About the poor brown streets…

— Stella Benson

“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Alcohol. It can give the courage to talk dirty and the permission to go home with the bartender. It’s the alibi. The cover story.…

— Emma Chase

“All one night we sat, with a friend of his, in a big dark roadhouse outside of Philadelphia, arguing and arguing about mysticism, and…

— Thomas Merton

“And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up empties, gives…

— Kim Addonizio

“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Hollis blew gently on the thin tan island of foam afloat in her half pint of Guinness, to see it move, then drank some.…

— William Gibson