What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
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.
And I will make it felony to drink small beer.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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.
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.
Give me to drink mandragora.
Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!
Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
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?
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.
Drink down all unkindness.
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table. - from Macbeth
I drink to the general joy of the whole table