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Quotes About Alcohol

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.
~ Christopher Titus
Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking
~ Dave Mustaine
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
~ Marguerite Duras
El alcohol suplió la función que no tuvo Dios, también tuvo la de matarme, la de matar.
~ Marguerite Duras
Boire ce n'est pas obligatoirement vouloir mourir, non. Mais on ne peut pas boire sans penser qu'on se tue. Vivre avec l'alcool, c'est vivre avec la mort à la portée du main. Ce qui empêche de se tuer quand on est fou de l'ivresse alcoolique, c'est l'idée qu'une fois mort on ne boira plus.
~ Marguerite Duras
Drink never drown anyone's sorrows, he went on. It only teaches them how to swim.
~ Marian Keyes
She had once tried to copy Jojo's sexy wink – drink had been taken – but she had simply succeeded in dislodging her contact lens which had made her eyelid flutter like a trapped butterfly.
~ Marian Keyes
I`ve always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you`re not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.
~ Marilyn Manson
Negative lifestyle choices and high job stress led me down a path of alcohol and nicotine abuse, and eventually open heart surgery.
~ Mark Hyman
Theoretically, pickling can be accomplished without salt, but the carbohydrates and proteins in the vegetables tend to putrefy too quickly to be saved by the emerging lactic acid. Without salt, yeast forms, and the fermentation process leads to alcohol rather than pickles.
~ Mark Kurlansky
At the time of their deaths, three out of five Russian men, I am told, are found to have a blood-alcohol level exceeding what one needs to qualify for a DWI.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead.
~ Anthony Burgess
It might have been seen, I said, with half an eye, that Mr. Broughton did not like the state of the money-market; and it might also be seen with the other half that he had been endeavouring to mitigate the bitterness of his dislike by alcoholic aid. Musselboro at once perceived that his patron and partner was half drunk, and Crosbie was aware that he had been drinking.
~ Anthony Trollope
If any father have a son whose besetting sin is a passion for alcohol, let him take his child to the room of a drunkard when possessed by the horrors. Nothing will cure him if not that.
~ Anthony Trollope
He then 'went off to have a rest', which was often a Soviet euphemism for incapacity through alcohol.
~ Antony Beevor
We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world.
~ Ariel Levy
We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol.
~ Ariel Levy
The sun is over the yardarm
~ Shirley Jackson
He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.
~ Sinclair Lewis
When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
~ sir winston churchill
I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.
~ Sophie Kinsella