Quotes about Ale

A. E. Housman

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

Vikings

Ale has too often been praised by poets
The longer you drink the less sense your mind makes of things

Modern research has shown that the earliest deleterious effect of alcohol is impaired judgment and perception. It is fascinating that in this important set of advice from the chief God Odin, this was the problem that was focussed upon.

Margo Martindale

Wine has class. I love wine. The drier, the better. But beer? I just can't do it.

Nicholas Culpeper

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

Greta Garbo

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

Matt Groening

Homer no function beer well without.

Jack Nicholson

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Steve Mirksy

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

George Borrow

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.

Lord Byron

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

John Clare

While snow the window-panes bedim,
The fire curls up a sunny charm,
Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,
The flowering ale is set to warm;
Mirth, full of joy as summer bees,
Sits there, its pleasures to impart,
And children, 'tween their parent's knees,
Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.

Jonathan Swift

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

A. E. Housman

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale:
"Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others,
Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

Sydney Smith

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Katherine Kelly

I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.

Charles Dickens

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

Anthony Bourdain

For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

William Shakespeare

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

Viking Proverb

A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts

John Gay

Some folks of cider make a rout
And cider's well enough no doubt
When better liquors fail;
But wine, that's richer, better still,
Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
Must yield to nappy ale

William Butler Yeats

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

Ale Quotes