“A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)
“Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.”
Source: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" in Hard Lines (1931); this statement is often misattributed to Dorothy Parker.
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