Top 100 Quotes About Ale
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.
Stephanie Clifford
#4. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.
G.A. Aiken
#5. But why have you dear English Jew whose forefathers fought to enter the country of Johnny Mill, the Stuart with a little heart, saunter in Haridwar, no pubs or fish and chips' counters here, only Ganga-Jal, -the holy ale- Quaff it for the spirit and carry it to the banks of Thames in a holy grail.
Aporva Kala
#6. Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?"
"Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love.
Jacqueline Carey
#8. when a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An
George Eliot
#9. Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
Greta Garbo
#10. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A.E. Housman
#11. Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.
Robert Burns
#12. May the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his wine and ale!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. 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.
Steven Morrissey
#14. Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
John Phillips
#15. In my village, one of our priests says that love between men is a great sin- the other argues that nothing at all is sinful except weak ale, overdone meat, and building a fire in any way but his.
Peter S. Beagle
#17. A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.
John R. Rice
#18. Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.
Bernard Cornwell
#19. She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...
Kathleen Winsor
#20. Brusco had a bad back, and could not lift anything heavier than a tankard of brown ale.
George R R Martin
#21. But right now, at the wedding supper, a bigger problem was emerging. Every time G thought about how to break the news to her, he gulped down a cup of ale. And he thought about it a lot. Every time he looked at his new bride. And he looked at her a lot.
Cynthia Hand
#22. The Prancer stepped back and studied her for a moment. Then, with a gleam in his eye, he said, 'All unicorns know the Land. Few humans do. But no unicorn knows how to brew ale.'
'I'm glad humans have some use.'
'Only those who can brew ale.
Chrys Cymri
#23. Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us.
P.G. Wodehouse
#24. [Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water."
"Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale ... or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answers]
Louis L'Amour
#25. 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
#26. I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!
Kristin Davis
#27. Durzo gazed into the frothy brown ale as if it held answers. It didn't,
Brent Weeks
#28. The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."
Kenneth Grahame
#29. I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, "Oh, okay, so it's just one choice." One choice? I gave you Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale, Sprite. They saw that as one choice. Now why was that one choice? Because they felt, well, it was just all soda.
Sheena Iyengar
#30. It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
Herman Melville
#32. It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. Mr. Paggle lifted his own ale in the air. "What shall we toast to?"
"Yarrow's right hook?" Peer said.
"Bray's unladylike nerve?" Arlow suggested.
"To new friends," Yarrow said.
"New friends," they agreed. Their glasses clinked merrily.
March McCarron
#34. Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
William Shakespeare
#35. I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
George Farquhar
#36. Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.
Bill Cosby
#37. Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale.
Bella Forrest
#38. Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
Kenelm Digby
#39. He took another sip of ale, and began talking lovingly of breads and pies and tarts, all the things he loved. Arya rolled her eyes.
George R R Martin
#40. I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
William Butler Yeats
#41. Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.
Keith Ward
#42. You tell me exactly what happened, ye filthy wee pervert," Fraser whispered, his breath hot on Grey's face and smelling of ale. He shook Grey slightly. "Every word. Every motion. Everything." Grey got just enough breath to answer. "No," he said defiantly. "Go ahead and kill me.
Diana Gabaldon
#45. The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.
Sebastian Faulks
#46. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare
#48. Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ...
Brandi L. Bates
#49. I could imagine Cnut sitting there and thinking that I must join him soon, and we would raise a horn of ale together. There is no pain in Valhalla, no sadness, no tears, no broken oaths.
Bernard Cornwell
#50. Ireland?" he said. "I'm from Ireland! Why do you think I came here?" he said. "Nothing good in Ireland." He frowned. "Except the ale. The ale is fine.
A.C. Gaughen
#51. They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.
Robert Low
#52. When a burning is announced, the taverns off Smithfield Square order extra barrels of ale, but when the person to be executed is a woman and one of noble birth, the ale comes by the cartload.
Nancy Bilyeau
#53. You do like them thin, don't you?" Pyrlig said, amused. "Now I like them meaty as well-fed heifers! Give me a nice dark Briton with hips like a pair of ale barrels and I'm a happy priest. Poor Hild. Thin as a ray of sunlight, she is, but I pity a Dane who crosses her path today.
Bernard Cornwell
#54. They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale
and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#55. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.
King Edward VIII
#56. Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#58. Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
William Blake
#59. Ale Perez What happened to your right hand?
TCKeller hucky made me finger-spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious untill he got it right. it took an hour and a half. i still can't hold a fork. what's the favour.
Steve Kluger
#60. If he's not watering his ale, he's running illegal beasts on the common, if he's not despoiling the common he's assaulting an officer of the peace, if he's not drunk he's dead drunk, and if he's not dead before his time there's no justice in this world.
Hilary Mantel
#61. 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.
Edward Lear
#62. 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
#63. If you live in Boston, Samuel Adams draft beer (Summer Ale) and Dunkin' Donuts are essentials of life. But I discovered to my delight that even these indulgences can be offset by persistent exercise.
Haruki Murakami
#64. 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
#65. Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century
Tom Acitelli
#66. Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
Kin Hubbard
#67. 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
John Gay
#68. If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.
Daphne Du Maurier
#69. 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
#70. I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.
Rob Sheffield
#71. As [ale] is the liquor of modern historians, ... , it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.
Henry Fielding
#72. It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Martin Luther
#73. And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. Aggressively whisk the egg mix until it's well integrated with the ale. Once the two of them are over their differences and appear to be getting along well, introduce the gin. Your aggressive whisking will make the ale, eggs and gin forget their differences as they vow to team up against you.
Chris-Rachael Oseland
#75. A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.
George R R Martin
#76. I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#77. As Antony said to Cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale;
Oh I say, some girls are bigger than others.
Morrissey
#78. I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.
Brigid Berlin
#79. If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale.
Ann Hood
#80. There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.
Joseph Livesey
#81. GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY
Garbo
#82. Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.
Bernard Cornwell
#83. I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.
Tom Petty
#84. Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
Guy De Maupassant
#85. Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.
Rafael Sabatini
#86. Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)
William Shakespeare
#88. There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.
Robin Hobb
#89. My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
Tom Hodgkinson
#90. Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another.
George R R Martin
#91. I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
Brigit Of Kildare
#92. Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say.
Terry Pratchett
#93. They're the sort of dozy bastards who don't think beyond their next pot of ale, but Thomas does, Thomas is a two-pot thinker, he is.
Bernard Cornwell
#94. The familiar smells of a busy tavern at an hour closer to dawn than dinner. Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke, and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of the civilized nightlife.
Scott Lynch
#95. I finished the ale, started to order a third one, and decided against it. I'd had enough. More than enough. Or I never would have. You take just so much from a bottle, and then you stop taking. From then on you're putting.
Jim Thompson
#96. It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer ... a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.
Christopher Moore
#97. As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
Thomas Nash
#98. Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.
Steve Kluger
#99. Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.
Steven Brust
#100. If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.
Charles Dickens
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