Top 100 Alcohol Drinking Quotes
#1. Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean ... Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
Gerard Way
#2. Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.
Sara Sheridan
#3. I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.
Lars Frederiksen
#4. I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.
Rachel Maddow
#5. Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
Oscar Wilde
#6. That would work in a court of law. But we're not in a court of law. We're in the court of tequila. And in the court of tequila, you and I both know you were lying.
Melanie Shawn
#7. I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
Pete Coors
#8. Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.
Marian Engel
#9. My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
#10. Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.
N. F. Simpson
#11. Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.
Doug Stanhope
#12. Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
Dave Moulton
#13. I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
W.C. Fields
#14. Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
W.C. Fields
#15. I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.
Sarah Hepola
#16. 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
#17. [In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.
Nina Nastasia
#18. Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
P. J. O'Rourke
#19. Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
Jimmy Buffett
#21. The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Mignon McLaughlin
#22. It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.
Louise Jordan Miln
#23. That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition is surely one of the ironies in the history of alcohol.
Jack London
#24. I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant ... if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?
Chelsea Handler
#25. Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.
Abby Fabiaschi
#26. I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman.
Christopher Buehlman
#27. Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for.
Rashers Tierney
#28. So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.
Daniel Silva
#29. 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
#30. You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order
Josh Stern
#32. Everyone is drinking. She can feel them out there drinking, turning into beasts.
Anna Keesey
#33. Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
Phyllis Diller
#34. It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
Amy Neftzger
#35. What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Lord Byron
#36. Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.
Neel Burton
#37. She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#38. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.
W.C. Fields
#39. Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It's important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.
Sol Luckman
#41. He felt that alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional cannabis joint was quite enough. There was no need to add caffeine to the list of health risks he put his body through."-Drake Kingsley's reason for not drinking tea or coffee, The Venetian Violinist.
Marcio Goncalves
#42. If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.
Alida Nugent
#43. How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ...
Robert Reed
#44. Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.
Roman Payne
#45. If you are allergic to alcohol ... can you take shots for that?
Shmuel Breban
#46. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.
Liz Hemingway
#47. They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis Peters
#48. There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
Warren Zevon
#50. The reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
Rebecca West
#51. I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.
Dawn French
#53. What is this place?'
'Heaven.' She laughed, 'with better drinks!
Tan Redding
#54. Drinking alcohol is like eating donuts. Having one or two occasionally is not going to hurt you, but having several a day will eventually lead to serious consequences.
Cyndi Turner
#56. 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
#57. Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Zach Wamp
#58. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
#59. It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.
Tom Papa
#60. A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive.
Brian Spellman
#61. Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.
Guy Debord
#62. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#63. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.
Rashers Tierney
#66. I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
David Levithan
#67. Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.
Stephen King
#68. Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!
Gloria Gaynor
#69. Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.
"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree
Hanns Heinz Ewers
#70. I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Tom Waits
#71. That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
Richard Matheson
#72. To alcohol! The cause of ... and solution to ... all of life's problems
Matt Groening
#73. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
Steve Martin
#75. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.
Groucho Marx
#76. The physical effects of alcohol are often one of the least rewarding parts of drinking for addicts.
Charles Duhigg
#77. He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.
John Green
#78. I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
Mike Ditka
#79. Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!
Don Garlits
#80. Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
Warren Ellis
#81. Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.
Tupac Shakur
#82. I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Darynda Jones
#83. When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.
Theodore Roethke
#84. He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.
Gilbert Sorrentino
#86. A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
Anne Enright
#87. You tasted like fire
And I miss that.
So, at times
I drank a little.
And at times,
I drank too much.
But I only drank
Till it burned me enough.
Saiber
#88. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
Queen Victoria
#89. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
Laura Esquivel
#90. I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.
Joe E. Lewis
#91. The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.
George R R Martin
#92. I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.
Kurt Vile
#93. It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when usually people give you like this window of success time.
Ryan Montgomery
#94. God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
Ed McMahon
#95. Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.
Jean Zimmerman
#96. Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.
Ava Gardner
#97. Among young people ... drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.
Billy Graham
#98. Drinking people are loud people. This is lost
on children, who make monkey bars of noise,
climbing through and over its steel pipes
until they king the metal smell of mountain.
Ken Craft
#99. All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
Beatrice Webb
#100. There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
Graham Greene
