Shakespeare quotes on drink

As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out 'No more!'; reconciles them to his entreaty and himself to th' drink
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers,

Give me the cups; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without, The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth, 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.' Come, begin
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

Is there no virtue extant? He drinketh
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

You owe money here besides, Sir John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent you, four-and-twenty pound
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh- but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hoop'd pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see, I drink the water of my eye
Source: THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

Sixth part of each? A trembling contribution! Why, we take From every tree lop, bark, and part o' th' timber; And though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd, The air will drink the sap
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

I dare not call them fools; but this I think, When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock; and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin

Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied; but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness
Source: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander- Drink, ho!- are nothing to your English
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE

That bucket down and fun of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison, Fatal and ominous to noble peers! Within the guilty closure of thy walls RICHARD the Second here was hack'd to death; And for more slander to thy dismal seat, We give to thee our guiltless blood to drink
Source: KING RICHARD III

Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof, Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, And quaff carouses to our mistress' health; And do as adversaries do in law- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

'A health!' quoth he, as if He had been abroad, carousing to his mates After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel, And threw the sops all in the sexton's face, Having no other reason But that his beard grew thin and hungerly And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Out o' your wits and hearing too? A pox o' your bottle! This can sack and drinking do
Source: THE TEMPEST

All those which were his fellows but of late- Some better than his value- on the moment Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance, Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear, Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him Drink the free air
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

Lord Bassianus lies beray'd in blood, All on a heap, like to a slaughtered lamb, In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still; In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow And keep eternal spring-time on thy face, So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

'Tis like he'll question me Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn'd on him? If so, I have derision med'cinable To use between your strangeness and his pride, Which his own will shall have desire to drink
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

With drinking healths to my niece; I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend; for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

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