Alcohol Quotes

Let me tell you something you probably already know. It's that second cork that should remain in the neck of the bottle. You can liberate 1, but two bottles of wine for 2 people is 1 bottle too many. There was a reason the French bottled wine the way they did. 2 and a half glasses was plenty of wine for 2 people to consume with dinner. But that's not how it went with us.

~ Dorothea Benton Frank

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

~ Erin Bowman

Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example.

~ Dave Barry

Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.

~ Margaret Atwood

It is not against the law to drink in public places, and you will see people drinking in parks or by the lake. The Swiss have a more relaxed attitude to alcohol consumption. From the age of 16, young people can be served beer or wine in a bar.

~ Clare O'dea

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

~ Kingsley Amis

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

~ Jay Mcinerney

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

~ Cassandra Clare

Do you guys ever reach the point of drunkenness where you're so drunk you're like I better keep drinking to sober up and then you're like you know, I recognise that that is not how it works. But...

~ Hannah Hart

Wine? said Zoe. At two in the afternoon?I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years. She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. That's yours.

~ Mo Hayder

Whoever said that a drunk mind speaks sober thoughts...was clearly still drunk off their ass. -Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain

~ Ashley Jade

Drinking people are loud people. This is loston children, who make monkey bars of noise,climbing through and over its steel pipesuntil they king the metal smell of mountain.

~ Ken Craft

When my grandmother comes to dinner at our house she always carries her own jar of Turner’s Special Blend. She knows how much she needs and doesn’t want to be caught short. My brother remembers her at Christmas one year, an especially weepy time for her, when she put her hands around his neck and murmured, My little angel, you wouldn’t be so hard to kill. And though he knew it was only the whiskey talking, he also knew that the whiskey talked daily.

~ Nick Flynn

Love is like liquor. In love, u feel high as u feel when you drink too much alcohol. It stays in your head for some time, making u tipsy n turvy and disconnected with everything. But just like it's effect fades away slowly and slowly, aching your every nerve so does the after effects of falling out of love. No drug can soothe it away.

~ Nikita Dudani

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

~ Neel Burton

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.

~ Susan Cheever

Somebody tells you they drink because they’re a failure, it ain’t so. They’re a failure because they drink. And they drink because it’s so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn’t empty, they never feel far from being happy.(Bums)

~ William Kent Krueger

I took another draught and my mouth was awash again in a riptide of bitter, bubbly, CO2 eruptions and the fruity splash of malted barley. What a sensation! I wasn't sure if I liked it at first, but by bottle's end I was a dedicated fan.

~ Joel Miller

The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues.

~ Chris Wooding

Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes, alcohol's vow of kinship, that it will bridge your life to others, smooth the way, proves false. Fooled again: you're alone.

~ James Sallis

Ever since, in the U.K. they banned smoking in public places, I've never enjoyed a drinks party ever again. And the reason, I only worked out just the other day, is when you go to a drinks party and you stand up and you hold a glass of red wine and you talk endlessly to people, you don't actually want to spend all the time talking. It's really, really tiring. Sometimes you just want to stand there silently, alone with your thoughts. Sometimes you just want to stand in the corner and stare out of the window. Now the problem is, when you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a fucking philosopher.

~ Rory Sutherland

While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

~ Sebastian Barry

There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.

~ Alan Lemay

Being me is a job — is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn’t something people give away and then there’s drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That’s a full-time occupation: that’s like being a miner, or a nurse.

~ A.l. Kennedy

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

~ Amy Poehler

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where— anywhere.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

~ Sara Sheridan

Gin and tonics won't say I love you and neither will he.

~ Sarabeth Purcell

What’s your poison or should I just waste my money by guessing something you probably won’t even drink? I’d much rather get you something you like.

~ Jason Medina

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

~ S.a. Tawks

How many of you were born in Oklahoma? Yeah, never raise your hand to a question like that again. We’re the mecca of beer-drinkin’ rednecks.

~ Bryant A. Loney

Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.

~ Naomi Jackson

There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

For sensible men I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home. The fourth krater is not mine any more - it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.

~ Eubulus

How many nights are we here? Cassie asked. Six? So we need what, 20 bottles?

~ Gennifer Albin

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

~ Sara Sheridan

The medicine is in the eye of the beholder and right now you be-holding a big ass glass of it. So, shut up and drink your whiskey.

~ Joe Buckler

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

~ Sarah Caudwell