Ale Quotes

• 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

  Drinking, Eye, Beer

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

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Drinking, Beer

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

  William Blake

  Beer, Fire, Long

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Beer, Blessing

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

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

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Sky, Drink

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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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

  Beer, Laughing, October

  Reginald De Koven, Harry Bache Smith (1898). “Robin Hood: A Comic Opera in Three Acts”

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Beer, Proud

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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• A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278

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

  Aesop

  Peace, Fear, Food

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

  Anne Sexton

  Humorous, Beer, Voice

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Dust, Sky

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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

  Washington Irving

  Beer, Men, Wind

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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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 ale.

  George Henry Borrow

  Beer, Names, Drink

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.345

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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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

  Food, Sleep, Beer

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Beer, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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 dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Chocolate, Style

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• I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Men, Smell

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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