Quotes About Guinness

#1. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.

Rashers Tierney

#2. I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Mark Hamill

#3. Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I've never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.
Harper Gray.

Trish Doller

#4. Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.

Cherie Priest

#5. At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Graham Greene

#6. Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.

Rita Ora

#7. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!

Rashers Tierney

#8. Perhaps I should call the Guinness Book people. I wondered what the world record was for not being sure whether you committed a string of murders?

Jeff Lindsay

#9. St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

Conan O'Brien

#10. I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.

Lewis Black

#11. The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.

Jack White

#12. For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill ... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

Martin Bashir

#13. What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

Saoirse Ronan

#14. Deal. Mrs. B belongs in the Guinness Book of World Records on many counts. Signing a non-compete at 99 merely adds one more.

Warren Buffett

#15. Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes.

Holly Madison

#16. I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

Robbie Williams

#17. The older I get
the quicker Christmas comes,
but if I had to give up the heavenly
taste of Guinness dark, I couldn't
live another goddamn day. Darling,
you can chisel that into my headstone.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#18. Leaving work with a bag full of Guinness and thank-you notes is better than getting paid.

Clifton Kenny

#19. One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Bob Brown

#20. She hated funeral homes with their thick carpets and elegantly appointed decor. She would much prefer an all-out Irish wake where everyone drank too much Guinness and brawls broke out. That's how the dead should be honored- with life and all of it's warts.

Elizabeth Meyette

#21. I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

Ricky Hatton

#22. My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

Peter O'Toole

#23. F they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Alan Bennett

#24. Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for.

Rashers Tierney

#25. I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Myers

#26. L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!

Donald Glover

#27. A banker can be as called and as pleasing to God as Billy Graham may be when he preaches. A brewer can serve as valuable a role in the kingdom of God as a missionary, a priest, or a pope. This is the truth of Christianity and this, too, is a core truth of the Guinness story.

Stephen Mansfield

#28. Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

Charles Stuart Calverley

#29. Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

Matthew McGrory

#30. I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

Peter Riegert

#31. I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

Kenneth Branagh

#32. Every time someone takes a sip of Guinness, a part of straight marriage dies,

Bobby Jindal

#33. Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

Clint Catalyst

#34. When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#35. You are just landmark stupid, aren't you? Has Guinness called yet about that world record?

Rachel Caine

#36. So, what, you just decided to sack out here and seduce me when I walked in the door? Home from spending the night at my boyfriend's? After having sex with him that could go in the Guinness Book of Records?

Charlaine Harris

#37. I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

Stephane Rolland

#38. I admit I was drinking a Guinness ... but I did not swallow.

Kinky Friedman

#39. Dear God, if I made it through this alive and conscious, my name deserved to be added to some X-rated category in the Guinness Book of World Records or something.
-Emma

Rachael Wade

#40. I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.

David Hasselhoff

#41. You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.

Puff Daddy

#42. Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.

Brian O'Driscoll

#43. I may not be in the world guinness book of records, but I'm in the lambs book of life in heaven.

Evans Biya

#44. Pee like you're trying to break the Guinness World Record.

Angela Cervantes

#45. President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

Conan O'Brien

#46. I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

Saoirse Ronan

#47. As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

Tananarive Due

#48. I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.

Jerome Bettis

#49. The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

Fran Kranz

#50. I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

Nick Vujicic

#51. Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

Ashley Madekwe

#52. Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Sean Connery

#53. I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

Mark Hamill

#54. I'm more of a Smithwick's or Bulmer's girl than a pint of Guinness.

Emily Ratajkowski

#55. I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Russell Smith

#56. Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.

Stephanie Zacharek

#57. People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Jasmine Guinness

#58. Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Mike Myers

#59. Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Os Guinness

#60. Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

Jasmine Guinness

#61. If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.

Daphne Guinness

#62. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

Os Guinness

#63. We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Os Guinness

#64. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Os Guinness

#65. I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Jasmine Guinness

#66. I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

Jasmine Guinness

#67. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Daphne Guinness

#68. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

Alec Guinness

#69. I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

Daphne Guinness

#70. I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

Jasmine Guinness

#71. It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

Jasmine Guinness

#72. Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

Os Guinness

#73. We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Os Guinness

#74. I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.

Jasmine Guinness

#75. When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

Daphne Guinness

#76. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Alec Guinness

#77. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Os Guinness

#78. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,

Daphne Guinness

#79. As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

Os Guinness

#80. Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Os Guinness

#81. There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

Os Guinness

#82. There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.

Os Guinness

#83. I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daphne Guinness

#84. I love to look at women with good bones and good bodies in good clothes.

Gloria Guinness

#85. Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything

Lulu Guinness

#86. A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Os Guinness

#87. I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

Daphne Guinness

#88. One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

Os Guinness

#89. I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Daphne Guinness

#90. We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Os Guinness

#91. Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.

Os Guinness

#92. My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Jasmine Guinness

#93. When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

Os Guinness

#94. Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Os Guinness

#95. Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.

Os Guinness

#96. Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

Jasmine Guinness

#97. God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Os Guinness

#98. Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

Daphne Guinness

#99. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

Henry Grattan Guinness

#100. If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.

Os Guinness