John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4834 Robert Hall 1764-1831 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4834 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Hall (1764–1831) |
| QUOTATION: | Call things by their right names…. Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gregory’s Life of Hall. |
| Note 1. See Tourneur, Quotation 1. He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.—Diogenes Laertius: Pythagoras, vi. [back] |