"Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams"

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Source : Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

Compton Mackenzie

#Beer Quotes #Two Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
“The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.”
“However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.”
“Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.”
“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.”

Source : Manning Marable, Russell Rickford (2015). “Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader”, p.76, Routledge
“It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.”
“Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.”
“After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.”

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