"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
- George Bernard Shaw
"So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passio..."
- D.H. Lawrence
"It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brand..."
- Martin Cruz Smith
"Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart."
- Elizabeth Jane Howard