Drinking Quotes
... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessin...
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Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary...
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Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price th...
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Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civili...
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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...
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I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had g...
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Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.
Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.
I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight dow...
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He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's be...
Show MoreDeath: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcoho...
Show MoreHe wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up ar...
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It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission...
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... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the w...
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The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and mor...
Show MoreNow tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
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I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. ...
Show MoreI cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank h...
Show MoreEverybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fi...
Show MoreAll excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and un...
Show MoreMore wine for me, pour me some more!" "You smart girl, I knew you're a smart girl, just teasing...”...
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All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rou...
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Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken mon...
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There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they ...
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I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus wan...
Show MoreWe were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when ev...
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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you mi...
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone a...
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Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every on...
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quote...
Show MoreIn wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessa...
Show MoreThere comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. On...
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New Rule: The Napa Valley is Disneyland for alcoholics. Be honest, you're not visiting wineries in f...
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Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a pers...
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Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki...
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More wine," Lightsong said, raising his cup."You can't get drunk, Your Grace," Llarimar noted. "Your...
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
I'm a drinker with writing problems.
We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the da...
Show MoreDrinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was...
Show MoreWhen a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...
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One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...
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Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” “The Devil Tavern if you must know...
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You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love.....
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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...
Show MoreYa got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn R...
Show MoreGetting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a...
Show MoreDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of every...
Show MoreThere's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up...
Show MoreI went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep hi...
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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil ...
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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in ...
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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make ...
Show MoreAre you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink ag...
Show MoreI went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. ...
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I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby...
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close t...
Show MoreAlcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...
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So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....
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I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's no...
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My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see ...
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Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been...
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For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but...
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We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of phys...
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Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has...
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I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy
You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.


















