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Quotes About Alcohol

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
~ H.L. Mencken
His drinking, of course, only aggravated what it was meant to alleviate.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Ecco che cosa intendo per esperienze paranormali, soprannaturali. Se l'umanità si accontentasse di quelle, come faceva una volta, non avrebbe bisogno del tabacco e dell'acquavite.
~ Halldor Laxness
Are you coming or not?" Mom asked. Kat could hear the drink in her mother's voice. It was not an unfamiliar sound. "Coming
~ Harlan Coben
I never trust a man that doesn't drink.
~ John Wayne
I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol, not in the appearance, and in jealous eyes
~ zwaantje nacion
Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.
~ Sheriff Grady Judd
I don't know about you, but I always need a stiff drink after a visit with your parents
~ Sherry Thomas
In my travels, I have noticed that in some countries drinking has become a national pastime. If you don't drink, they look at you as if there is something wrong. Their motto is: "It doesn't matter how bad your English is, as long as your Scotch is good." If a banker asked them what their liquid assets are, they would bring two bottles of Scotch.
~ Shiv Khera
My grandmother always said if you add sugar to booze then it's medicine not liquor.
~ Simon Clark
A vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and from the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.
~ Simon R. Green
No Tax on Liquor(also known as the Who's for a Party Party)
~ Simon R. Green
If pre-warned perhaps I could have used the tactic of a former KGB officer I once knew. He claimed he would swallow handfuls of lard before boozy meetings with crucial contacts, because the fat would line his stomach, prevent absorption of alcohol, and keep him sharp and focused. This is still not to be recommended.
~ Simon Reeve
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
~ Alexander Brome
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
~ Anais Nin
Like the kind of stuff folks drank in our world that made them giggly and stumbly and sometimes vomity?
~ Max Brooks
Ich verdanke dir mein Leben. Ich weiß. Wenn du Wert darauf legst, ich kann es jeden Tag einmal sagen: ich verdanke dir mein Leben (...) Du ekelst mich (...) Geh pissen (...) Heul nicht deinen Schnaps aus den Augen, wenn du ihn nicht halten kannst, sag ich, geh
~ Max Frisch
Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.
~ Maya Angelou
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. I'm a size twelve, she says.
~ Meg Cabot
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
~ Melissa Bank
I went to your funeral, Annie. She hardened herself against the thickness in his voice, and reached for the door handle. Was it nice? He slid in front of her, his back against the door. His hard smile was at her eye level. I don't know. I only got through it with the help of a fifth, so I was too drunk to see much of anything.
~ Meljean Brook
Work is the curse of the drinking man
~ Ben Bova
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.
~ Bertrand Russell