Quotes About Alcohol

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

Gavin recognized the look of his father, a half-empty bottle of resentment in his hand.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

It was probably in Georgiana that Hank met his first acknowledged musical influence, a black street musician, Rufus Payne. Because Payne was rarely found without a home-brewed mix of alcohol and tea, Payne's nickname was "Tee-Tot," a pun on teetotaler

The year with the McNeils also marked the beginning of Hank's drinking. He was eleven at the time.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.

He looked down at her, finding it difficult to resist the urge to climb over her prone body and kiss her senseless. "Would you mind telling me why you were drinking pear brandy in the middle of the afternoon?" "Because I couldn' open the sherry." His lips twitched. -Marcus & Lillian

What is the matter?" "You stink of spirits." "I always begin the day with brandied coffee." "How do you expect to ride when you're not steady on your feet?" "The same way I always ride--badly.

as far as I knew, no kingdom had ever gone to war with another over fermented grape juice. Though

Tequila--a sure cure for monogamy.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

All malt liquors fatten, or at least bloat; and I hope you do not deal much in them.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink.

By the age of thirty-five, women have only a few taste buds left: one for alcohol, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

By age thirty-five, women have only a few taste buds left: one for alcohol, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Damn bottle of Jack… She'd kissed her boss's son. And she'd liked it.

Got to die of something, Giraldi observed. Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Over three nights they went through more than two hundred cases of beer, more kegs than they could count, and enough hard liquor to embalm a herd of moose.

In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint.

I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.