Small Beer

Famous quotes containing the words small beer, small and/or beer:

    Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class world, and everything outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    Boughs have their fruit and blossom
    At all times of the year;
    Rivers are running over
    With red beer and brown beer.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)