Drinking Quotes

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

~ Sarah Hepola

Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

More likely drinking Coca-Cola... than water will be a symmetry...

~ Deyth Banger

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman’s trapdoor.

~ Fennel Hudson

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

~ Jim Butcher

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

~ William Shakespeare

if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

~ Dmitry Dyatlov

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

~ Jonathan Heatt

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

~ Ismail Kadare

My goal tonight is to maintain a steady stream of invincibility. If I hit stage four—“I’m Invisible”—I’ll likely pass out, and that would ruin all my fun.

~ Kendall Grey

All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody's elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour's elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter.

~ Émile Zola

Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.

~ Girdhar Joshi

I need a drink. Now.”After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. It’s been yet another night like all the other first dates that never meet a second one. When you begin to lose count, that's when it's really time for a drink.Adrian stands there, leaning against the counter in an unbuttoned dress shirt and dark wash jeans. He glances at me as I walk in. “How was your date?” he asks, taking a swig of his scotch.I brush past him on my mission, opening the cupboard and moving a couple bottles around. I reiterate, “I need alcohol.”Out of the corner of my eye, I catch him hiding a smile before he says, “That bad?”My face twitches as I ignore his line of questioning. It is more like a statement he wants me to clarify, even though he already knows the answer. Instead, I ask, “I have vodka left, don't I?” I stand on my tiptoes in hopes of spotting something in the very back. Nothing.He waltzes over and looks with me, his chin almost touching my shoulder. “I think you polished that one off after last week's date.” His voice is low right next to my ear, very nearly causing a shiver.

~ Lilly Avalon

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

~ Dudley Moore

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

~ Ken Bruen

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I cried a little, as I am sure father must have cried sometimes when there was no one about. Perhaps his getting drunk, as he did on all possible occasions, was a way of crying too.

~ Sherwood Anderson

I am not against drinking, but drink to celebrate not to remove stress! Be in integrity with the word ‘cheers!!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

~ Sylvia Plath

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

~ Tom Waits

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

~ Mae West

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain —Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away;What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

~ Oscar Wilde

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

~ William Shakespeare

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

~ Warren Ellis

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

~ Alice Sebold

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

~ C.s. Forester

Love is alcohol.

~ Katherine Applegate

Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.''Why not?''I guess I'm not in the mood?''Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.''No, really, I'm OK.''Just taste it.''Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.''Then how about half a glass?

~ David Sedaris

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

~ Caroline Knapp

I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!

~ Nicole Snooki Polizzi

Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a stick.

~ José N. Harris

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.

~ David Justice

Need 'nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.'Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. 'Mr. Walsh,' he said severely, 'in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, or even because his old woman has pasted him with a dornick, but a drink to get drunk with I do not sell. Now I'm telling you you've had enough for tonight, and in the morning you'll be thanking me...' (My Brother's Keeper)

~ Fletcher Pratt

It's too warm for red wine; now I mix gin and tonics instead. I find they make the ordinary sensation of living lighter, less ruffled.

~ Sara Baume

The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run into a girl who’s also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up to her and things get out of hand and before you know it, you’re being accused of something you’d never do. But men who rape are men who watch for the signs of who they believe they can rape. Rape culture isn’t a natural occurrence; it thrives thanks to the dedicated attention given to women in order to take away their security. Rapists exist on a spectrum, and maybe this attentive version is the most dangerous type: women are so used to being watched that we don’t notice when someone’s watching us for the worst reason imaginable. They have a plan long before we even get to the bar to order our first drink.

~ Scaachi Koul

I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman.

~ Christopher Buehlman

Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

~ Hanns Heinz Ewers

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

~ Neel Burton