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Quotes About Drink

You know, technically to be called 'bourbon,' it has to be made in Kentucky
~ David Baldacci
If I had time and dared to enter into digressions, I would write a chapter about that first pint of porter drunk upon English ground. Ah, how good it is! It is worth-while to leave home for a year, just to enjoy that one draught.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king.
~ William Shakespeare
Fetch it down an' I'll mix ye a Sampson." It had once been Prudie's favorite drink: brandy and cider and sugar. She stared at Jud as if he were the Devil tempting her to sell her soul.
~ Winston Graham
A planter, apparently, does not consider he has had a drink unless it contains at least seven ingredients, and I'm not saying, mind you, that he isn't right. The man behind the bar told us the things were called Green Swizzles; and, if ever I marry and have a son, Green Swizzle Wooster is the name that will go down on the register, in memory of the day his father's life was saved at Wembley.
~ Wodehouse
chia fresca—"chilly chia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. In
~ Christopher McDougall
chia fresca—"chilly chia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime.
~ Christopher McDougall
Have you been to a wake before?' Mrs. Kinsella asks. - 'I don't think so.' - 'Well, I might as well tell you: there will be a dead man in a coffin and lots of people and some of them might have a little too much taken.' - 'What will they be taking?' - 'Drink,' she says
~ Unknown
Beer barrel, though.
~ Colin Dexter
I was just going over London Bridge and I saw someone had attacked the Madonna's statue. Knocked off the baby's head.' 'That was done a while back. It would be that devil Cranmer. You know what he is when he's taken a drink.
~ Hilary Mantel
I don't suppose you have anything to drink around here?' Cardan asks. 'I don't imagine that whatever happens next is going to be particularly comfortable for me, and I would like to stay drunk in order to face it.' 'Do you really think I care if you're comfortable?' I demand.
~ Holly Black
She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.
~ Homer
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nick explained that an aperitif was an pre-dinner drink. Nick came from an aperitif-drinking family. Alice came from a family with one dusty bottle of Baileys sitting hopefully in the back of the pantry with the tins of spaghetti.
~ Liane Moriarty
Nick explained that an aperitif was a predinner drink. Nick came from an aperitif-drinking family. Alice came from a family with one dusty bottle of Baileys sitting hopefully in the back of the pantry behind the tins of spaghetti.
~ Liane Moriarty
Got more ice than a super sized drink.
~ Lil Wayne
She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.
~ Lily King
He took a sip from his own water glass.
~ Lincoln Child
Bloodies are the centerpiece of the Sunday Brunch--they are also, perhaps, the #1 Prep mixed drink..... 1. Place ice cubes in a large glass 2. Pour in two fingers of vodka 3. Fill glass almost to top with V-8 4. Season with: 2 drops Tabasco, 4 drops Worcestershire, 1/2 tsp. horseradish, 1 tsp. lime juice 5. Add wedge of lime, stir and drink 6. Repeat as needed
~ Lisa Birnbach
We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.
~ Alice Dreger
Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don't drink or smoke.
~ Arthur Potts Dawson
I love pineapple. You know, pineapple's great on ham, and just on its own, and in a drink. It's a very versatile fruit.
~ Vic Reeves
As a profiler, she would be great. But hunting a killer was hunting people, the job she'd avoided all her life because it was what her mother had said she was born for. Taking this assignment put her one step closer to her demons. Giving a drunk a drink.
~ Unknown
Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. Did you drink my coffee? Yes. I was feeling aggressive.
~ Jennifer Crusie