William Shakespeare Quotes About Drinking
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I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
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If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?
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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
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I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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