Quotes About Conviviality

At that point they all agreed not to get drunk that evening; they decided to drink only as much as pleased them.

Attitude must come by the gallon with the wine around here

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink.

They're just—happy." "About what?" She looked at the men, thinking. "Beer, sweetheart. They're happy about beer.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Si tuviera que enumerar todas las virtudes del alcohol, no acabaría nunca.

Food is so central to the South we all like—the Good South of conviviality and generosity and sweet communion.

How much is whiskey a gallon?" "I don't know," said Hughie. "I never get more than a half pint at a time myself—at one time that is. I figure you get a quart and right away you got friends. But you get a half pint and you can drink it in the lot before— well before you got a lot of folks around.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Beer is good food

Let other poets raise a fracas Bout vines, an' wines, an' drucken Bacchus, An' crabbit names an' stories wrack us, An' grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us, In glass or jug." Evans smiled at Stewart in confusion. "Burns on scotch, Mr Evans. A very fine poet and a very fine drink.

They who drink beer will think beer.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Beck nodded. 'Dig in. Best food you'll ever eat.' She took her first bite and savoured the warm

I'm a great fan of Chesterton, you know. He once said that he became a Catholic because we're the only religion that sees no contradiction between a pint, a pipe, and a cross.

As the belletrist extraordinaire Christopher Hitchens once told me, mastering the pen and the podium means never having to dine or sleep alone.

I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.