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)

“What was thy cause?
Adultery?
Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No,
The wren goes to’t, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)