Drinking Quotes

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

~ S.a. Tawks

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

~ S.a. Tawks

I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.

~ Vicki Lesage

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

~ Gerry Abbey

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

~ Gerry Abbey

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

~ Gerry Abbey

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot from alcohol poisoning. I've always wanted to hear the bartender's side of the story. What was it like watching this guy drink himself out of here? How did it feel handing him number twenty-one and watching his face crumple up before the fall of the stool? And did he already have number twenty-two poured, waiting for this big fat tip, and then have to drink it himself after whoever came took the body away?

~ Michael Thomas Ford

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

~ Gillian Flynn

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

~ Charles Bukowski

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something.Everything seemed so different, so unreal. There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight. There seemed no reason why these things should occupy the space, instead of leaving it empty. His friends talked to him: he heard the sounds, and he answered. But why there should be the noise of speech he could not understand.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

~ Graham Greene

... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.

~ Andrés Neuman

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

~ Amy Neftzger

Never underestimate the audacity of the small minded and slightly crapulous.A rather bleezed young neighbour decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds.I said something slightly amicable, and he responded with, “You sure that's how you use that word?”I put down my laundry basket and turned to him slowly and deliberately.“Do you really want to have this discussion with me, son, or do you want to go home and rethink your life?”He grumbled and vanished.

~ Michelle Franklin

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...

~ Hiroko Sakai

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.

~ George Orwell

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

~ Dorothy B. Hughes

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

~ Charles Bukowski

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

~ Luke Haines

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

~ Jack London

He pulled his hand back, aware now that sweat beaded on his forehead and that Rale watched him, his eyes dark, intense. Errol licked his lips. Did he want a drink? He hadn't gone more than two days in a row without a drink since he was...since...Warrel...the quarry...stone.

~ Patrick W. Carr

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

~ Jay M. Bylsma

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

~ Charles M. Blow

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat,we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

~ Roman Payne

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

~ Roman Payne

Indeed, these people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

~ Acts 2:15

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

~ Acts 2:15

Alcohol let's us go on a journey. It's like paying for a ride. It maybe a ride to nowhere, but at least we get to go on that ride that we paid for. And no journey is the same. We wake up next day, usually with memory loss, usually with regret at something we did or said. But we know, we got our money's worth.

~ Robert Black

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

~ Louis Pasteur

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

~ Criss Jami

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

~ Mark Twain

... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

~ C.s. Lewis

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

~ Samuel Snoek-Brown

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

~ Kamand Kojouri

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

~ David Kynaston

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Nothing is more fun than fucking and drinking, I don’t know what is your God offering in heaven.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.

~ Michel De Montaigne

It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission, for the first time in decades. A certain suppressed excitement crackled from man to man. Any watch trained in reading body language would have been prepared to bet that, after the click, someone was going to suggest that they might as well go somewhere and have a few drinks, and then someone else would fancy a meal, and then there was always room for a few more drinks, and then it would be 5 a.m. and the city guards would be respectfully knocking on the University gates and asking if the Archchancellor would care to step down to the cells to identify some alleged wizards who were singing an obscene song in six-part harmony, and perhaps he would also care to bring some money to pay for all the damage. Because inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

~ Terry Pratchett