Liquor Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
7 Liquor Quotes
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 1, song)
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Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a
glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall
Quotes , Source: Gregory's "Life of Hall", vol. I, p. 59
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As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought
in in malice.
Douglas Jerrold
Quotes , Source: Jerrold's Wit--Shakespeare Grog
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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
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of
life.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables
Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person
would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: Major Barbara
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