All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Alcohol”

“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.”
“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
“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.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
“I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”
“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”
“Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.”
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”

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