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Quotes About Alcohol

you know I don't drink! The route to ruin, that's what drink is. Haven't drunk for near twenty years, so don't think you can tempt me. But I'll pour you another before I says goodnight, if you care?' 'And send me on the route to ruin?' 'There's many a route to ruin, as it says in the Bible. We all have to find our own?
~ John Bainbridge
Bushmills was supposedly the whiskey favored by Protestants, while Jameson's was the Catholics' choice.
~ John Banville
The clouds reminded me of hootch, the rain reminded me of hootch, the stars reminded me of hootch. I used to dream about girls before I got on the hootch but after that I just used to dream about hootch. I mean dreams are supposed to come from some very deep part of your mind like sex but with me it was hootch.
~ John Cheever
Happy Birthday from your only friend other than alcohol.
~ Unknown
I would buy you a birthday present but I didn't think you wanted it coming out of tonight's alcohol budget.
~ Unknown
I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes
~ George Carlin
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
~ Billy Sunday
The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.
~ Unknown
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
~ Terry Pratchett
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
~ Unknown
My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
~ Jessica Alba
They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
~ Bud Abbott
I was relying on Suliman being alive.THen when all that seemed to be left of him was Percival, I was so scared I had to go out and get drunk. And then you go and play into the Witch's hand! I'm the eldest! Sophie shrieked. I'm a failure! Garbage! Howl shouted. You just never stop to think!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Much more. We're joined at the heart. Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky. Too much boozing. His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. Not enough kissling.
~ Diane Ackerman
Usually the walk home from the Swan was a time for regret—regret that his joints ached so badly, that he had drunk too much, that the best of life had passed him by and he had only aches and pains ahead of him now, a gradual decline till at the end he would sink into the grave.
~ Diane Setterfield
If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol, and that's PROOF. That's the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the 17th century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that's what is meant by proof to this day
~ Dick Francis
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
~ Dodie Smith
When someone asks whether they have bourbon, the bartender says smugly, 'Yes, of course, James Beam, very good.' Ã¢â'¬Â "James Beam. That is
~ Don DeLillo
Why are we so restless? Because ice cream is distracting but not fulfilling. Because alcohol offers a fabricated sense of peace. Because lust is not love.
~ Donald Miller
DYING BREATH COCKTAIL ½ ounce Jack Daniel's Whiskey ½ ounce Jägermeister Digestif ½ ounce Bacardi Black Rum ½ ounce Don Julio Reposado Tequila ½ ounce Cointreau Orange Spirit 2 ounces orange flavor 5 Hour Energy Drink
~ J.A. Konrath
when we passed the Hells Angels clubhouse they were giving cans of beer out to little kids. "Repeat after me," ordered a drunken Hells Angel dressed as a Viking warrior. "When I grow up I'm going to be a badass.
~ Jack Gantos
Through the discovery of Buchner , Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.
~ Unknown
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
~ Luis Bunuel
Ese hombre de cabellos blancos y escasos, de bigotillo recortado, que empujaba a sus dos chicas hacia el auto, era ejemplo de la sociedad estúpida, hueca e inofensiva, que no admitía alternar, en un sitio de borrachos, con otras gentes, por el solo hecho de que su embriaguez la producía el Tequila y no la Champaña
~ Unknown