- Quotes by Cyrill Connolly
“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out”. - Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink: Water, water, everywhere. Nor any drop to drink”. - Quotes by Irvin Cobb
“[On "corn licker"] It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp”. - Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, “I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine.” - Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
“I drink when I have occasion for it, and sometimes when I have not”. - Quotes by Lewis Carroll
“Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today. ” A loaf of bread,” the Walrus said, “Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides, Are very good indeed – Now if you’re ready, Oyster dear, We can begin to feed.” - Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon
“There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms, As rum and true religion. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and sofa water the day after. All human history attests, That happiness for man – the hungry sinner!- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner”.
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Tags: Byron Lord George Gordon, Cyrill Connolly, Eating And Drinking, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Irvin Cobb, Lewis Carroll, Miguel de Cervantes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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