When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
—C. S. Forester
Toasts | Alcohol Sayings, Liquor Quotes
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
—Erich Maria Remarque
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
—Charles Darwin
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
—Hunter S. Thompson
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
—Mark Twain
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
—Jim Morrison
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.
—Raymond Chandler
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
—Stonewall Jackson
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
—William Faulkner
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
—Anne Bronte