William Shakespeare Drinking Quotations

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.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

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.

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.

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

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

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

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?