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Quotes About Alcohol

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.
~ Sharon Stone
People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.
~ Adrian Dunbar
Not too big on alcohol, but if I had to chose; I like Ciroc.
~ Markieff Morris
I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
~ P. Chidambaram
Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
~ Raymond Carver
Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
~ Raymond Carver
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
~ Raymond Chandler
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
~ Raymond Chandler
I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads.
~ Raymond Chandler
Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
~ Raymond Chandler
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.
~ Raymond Chandler
The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.
~ Raymond Chandler
The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he came up with it he looked as guilty as if he'd kicked his grandmother.
~ Raymond Chandler
I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.
~ Raymond Chandler
El alcohol es como el amor —expresó—. El primer beso es magia; el segundo, intimidad; el tercero, rutina. Después de eso lo que hacemos es descestir a la muchacha.
~ Raymond Chandler
El alcohol es como el amor —expresó—. El primer beso es magia; el segundo, intimidad; el tercero, rutina. Después de eso lo que hacemos es desvestir a la muchacha.
~ Raymond Chandler
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that... On the way downtown I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. They didn't do me any good. All they did was make me think of Silver-Wig, and I never saw her again.
~ Raymond Chandler
Oh hell and fireflies," I said and went out to the kitchen and gobbled a quick drink, before we started. It didn't do me any good. It just made me want to climb up the wall and gnaw my way across the ceiling.
~ Raymond Chandler
I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little wile I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
~ Raymond Chandler
drank a little more of the tequila and made a face. "Did anybody invent this stuff on purpose?
~ Raymond Chandler
I never drink on duty, she said coldly. Besides somebody might smell my breath. You're working for me now. All my employees are required to get liquored up from time to time. Besides, if you had a good dinner and were to eat a couple of the Chasers in the kitchen cabinet, nobody would smell your breath.
~ Raymond Chandler
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket.
~ Raymond Chandler
Alcohol is like love,' he said. 'The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.
~ Raymond Chandler