Quotes About Alcohol

Darren," Paris called me back. "An excessive amount of alcohol is as bad for the young as for the old. If you are wise, you will drink in moderation." "Remember what you told me about wisdom a few years ago, Paris?" I replied. "What?" "You said the only way to get wise was to get experienced." Winking, I rushed out of the Hall

Darren, Paris called me back. An excessive amount of alcohol is as bad for the young as for the old. If you are wise, you will drink in moderation. Remember what you told me about wisdom a few years ago, Paris? I replied. What? You said the only way to get wise was to get experienced. Winking, I rushed out of the Hall and was soon sharing a barrel of ale with a grumpy, orange-haired vampire.

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm? Why don't you stay sober today? We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

Well, I may not have a framed Latin diploma, but I know crazy talk when I hear it. Alcohol has been an important part of the human diet for thousands of years. The Bible is filled with references to people drinking alcohol, such as this quotation from the Book of Effusions, Chapter Eight, Verse Six, Row 7:

She'd popped the Heineken open and drunk it.

You know, technically to be called 'bourbon,' it has to be made in Kentucky

An alcohol hangover was definitely no frolic in the psychic glade, all thirsty and sick and your eyes bulging and receding with your pulse, but after a night of involved hallucinogens Hal said the dawn seemed to confer on his psyche a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence. Halation, Axford observed.

Art soaked it in alcohol to toughen it up and draw out the water. (If he'd had the opposite problem—if the skin had been dry and stiff—he'd have soaked it in Downy fabric softener; I'm sure the makers of Downy would be pleased to know that their product makes even mummified human skin soft and fragrant.)

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?

Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.

put a glass of whiskey on the table.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.

triple cruda: con el arribo del alba, el pecador despierta torturado por la resaca física del ron, la resaca económica correspondiente a los billetes que dilapidó y peor que todo: la hija de puta cruda moral, que a decir de los verdaderos libertinos es privativa de espíritus débiles.

I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

Both anger and alcohol put people in the position where, paradoxically, they have knowledge that moves them to act but also lack the wisdom needed to act well.

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

things like, "He ain't much to see, but he looks real good through the bottom of a glass.

The only cure for a headache is a hangover.

I get no kick from champagne.Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,So tell me why should it be trueThat I get a kick out of you.

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...