Hervey Allen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Religions change; beer and wine remain.
-- Hervey Allen

#Wine #Beer #Beer And Wine
Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.
-- Hervey Allen

#Distance #Book #Blue
Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.
-- Hervey Allen

#Book #Expectations #Skylines
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
-- Hervey Allen

#Savages #Generations #Invasion
Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.
-- Hervey Allen

#Memorial Day #Lying #Heart
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
-- Hervey Allen

#Age #Five Senses #Middle
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
-- Hervey Allen

#Legends #Facts #Materials
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
-- Hervey Allen

#Civilization #Leaving #Departed
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
-- Hervey Allen

#Color #Borders #Void

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

Hervey Allen famous quotes

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