quotes about Ale
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
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And brought of mighty ale a large quart.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
-- George Farquhar -
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 BorrowSource : George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.345
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Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
-- Greta Garbo -
An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.
-- Howard Pyle -
Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.
-- Keith WardSource : Keith Ward (2013). “God: A Guide for the Perplexed”, p.183, Oneworld Publications
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Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.
-- Robert Burns -
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Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.
-- Steve Kluger -
As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
-- Thomas Nash -
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
-- William Butler Yeats -
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
-- William Shakespeare -
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Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.
-- Matthias de l'Obel