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Quotes About Drink

But when I open them up, I find that they're equal! And they both have achieved the same destiny: my zinc gurney. Why, then, did he tire himself out poring over so many books? Boh! Take my advice, journalist: eat, drink, and enjoy yourself—
~ Douglas Preston
She's more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.""We all have our flaws," said Pendergast.
~ Douglas Preston
All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.
~ Agatha Christie
One needs some really good food and drink after all the magnificent blood and gloom of Macbeth. Shakespeare always makes me ravenous
~ Agatha Christie
European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations.
~ Alan Furst
He took a long swallow from his bottle. As the warmth trailed down his throat, he sighed, partly out of contentment, partly out of a sense of loss. Wrong took another drink. In an hour or two everything would be all right.
~ Alan Russell
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
~ Thomas Couture
The only time I'll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I've left too long before drinking.
~ Mary Berry
I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could drink death and join it.
~ Rachel Kushner
There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
~ Nik Kershaw
So I got out my office bottle and took the drink and let my self-respect ride its own race.
~ 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
Gin, dissi io. Capito tutto. La gente per bene non beve gin. La gente per bene non beve niente, precisò la vecchia.
~ Raymond Chandler
I needed a drink and was in a hurry to get one. I
~ Raymond Chandler
The Appetite Killery" may be the most ironic name, but the most famous inscription read, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may have to go to Oakland.
~ Rebecca Solnit
What we eat is funny and what we drink is even more hilarious: turkeys, Gallo port, hot dogs, watermelons, Popeyes, salmon croquettes, frappes, Christian Brothers port, orange rye bread, canteloupes, Popeyes, salads, cheese--booze, grub and Popeyes.
~ Richard Brautigan
She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.
~ Richard Ford
You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan? I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk. Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The panic takes some to God, others to despair, some to charitable works, others to drink, some to emotional oblivion, others to a life where they hope that nothing serious will ever trouble them again.
~ Julian Barnes
Her hearing had faded out as soon as he'd touched her—maybe it was the angels playing harps or the exploding fireworks. Maybe her drink was too strong or her heart was too lonely.
~ Karin Slaughter
I had a coconut on the way, which was another first for me. A drink and food all in one. It didn't look like the normal coconuts you win at fairgrounds. There was no hair on it. I don't know if that's how they grow here or if it's that Brazilians hate hair on anything and they've waxed them.
~ Karl Pilkington
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
~ Theognis of Megara
Man went into a bar, he only had one arm. Guy sitting next to him said 'Hey, you've got your sleeve in my drink', man replied, 'There's no arm in it'
~ Tommy Cooper
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
~ Tom Standage