Brandy Quotes

• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Wine, Alcohol

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• A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

  Cary Grant

  Bottles, Shots

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

  George Saintsbury

  Alcohol, Soul, Body

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, People, Drink

  Elizabeth Taylor (2015). “A View of the Harbour”, p.86, New York Review of Books

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• Music is the brandy of the damned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Music Is, Man And Superman

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Alcohol, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• Brandy and water spoils two good things.

  Charles Lamb

  Food, Two, Water

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• There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

  Robert Burns

  Drinking, Divine

  'The Holy Fair' (1786) st. 27

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• Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Beef, Maids

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• If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wise, Lying, Wine

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• To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.

  Catherine Cookson

  Drinking, Guilt, Way

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Purple

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Writing, Thinking

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• It's all a matter of history.
  Brandy is no solace.
  Librium only lies me down
  like a dead snow queen.
  Yes! I am still the criminal.

  Anne Sexton

  Depression, Queens, Lying

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Men, Drink, Turns

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• Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Tired, Wine, Feel Better

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• If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sparrows, Made, Ifs

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• No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

  James Boswell

  Drinking, Hero, Wine

  James Boswell (2012). “James Boswell's Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: |”, p.186, Edinburgh University Press

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• We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

  Agatha Christie

  Taken, House, Bottles

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Remembered Death”, Pocket

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• We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Christian, Heart, Character

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• I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, White, Glasses

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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