Much Ado About Beer

Famous quotes from the plays of William Shakesbeere.

From Dipseo and Juliet:

"Budweiser, Budweiser, wherefore art thou Budweiser? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or if thou wilt not at least have a beer with me."

"A beer by any other name would still taste great."

"Our malt lies not in our stars, but in our beers."

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is a bud Light!"

"A keg on both your houses!"

From Hamms, the Melancholy Brew:

“Neither a borrower nor lender be; And above all - For thine own self drink brew."

"Alas, poor Yorick. I know where he kept his warm cases.

"Get thee to a Brewery!"

"The beer's the thing. "

"Something is rotten in this keg from Denmark."

"Two beers or not two beers. That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bar tabs, or take arms against a sea of potables and by opposing drink them."

"Last call makes cowards of us all."


From Julius Boozer:

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Buy me a Beer! I come to drink with Caesar, not praise him.”

"Beware the beers of birch!"

"Et tu, Brewski?"


From MacDuff:

"Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble - How many beers ‘til you see double?"

"Is this a lager l see before me - The handle toward my hand? Come let me drink thee."

From The Beer Merchant of Venice:

"All that glitters is not gold And all that's foamy is not beer."

"Hath not a beer frothy head? Hath not a beer malt, barley, hops? If you drink it, do you not belch?”


Fro As You Drink It:

"All the world is a bar and all the men and women merely patrons."


From Bender III:

"Now is the winter of our nickel beer nights."

“a beer! A beer! My kingdom for a beer!”


From The Tasting of the Brew:

“Kiss me Kate – we will be snockered on Sunday!”


From The Drunkest:

“Beers are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

In addition to such sudsy sonnets as “shall I compare thee to a mug of beer?” Shakesbeere penned dozen of other intoxicating quotes from such “spirited” plays as:

King Beer
Twelfth pack (or What You Swill)
The Tragedy of King John Barleycorn
All’s Ale That Tastes Swell
A Comedy of Bitters
Jigger for Jigger
COORSiolanus
The Beery Wives of Windsor
Tightand Igottapiss
And of course, the unforgettable, A midsummer’s Nightcap.

By Slag and Lichens