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Letter "B" » brandy
«When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter»
«Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.»
«Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation»
Author: Robert Hall
| Keywords:
appropriate, ask for, brandies, brandy, current, damnation, distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Fire and Water, liquid, liquids, The Current
«An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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an American, brandies, brandy, monkey, wiser
«Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aid, brandies, brandy, consolations, pressure, sorrows, tobacco
«We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.»
«Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
brandies, brandy, distill, distilling, distills
«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
amateurs, brandies, brandy, damned, musical, The Damned
«Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy»
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