Top 23 Russian Drinking Quotes
#1. Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain hose distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. Weep ... I sit in the chair and ooze like a sponge.
Margaret Atwood
#2. Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.
L.J. Shen
#3. the English drinking their 'alf and 'alf out of pewter mugs, the French drinking their claret out of very thin glasses, while our Russian shipmates and ourselves drank something harder out of thick glasses which were very small at the bottom.
Charles Erskine
#4. It's about waking up in the morning with everything around you looking gray. Gray sky, gray sun, gray city, gray people, gray thoughts. And the only way out is to have another drink. Then you feel better. Then the colors come back.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#5. Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded.
Yogi Berra
#6. The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.
Dan Savage
#7. Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.
Hugh Laurie
#8. Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.
David Letterman
#9. Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder
Muriel Barbery
#10. Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Joichi Ito
#11. 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
#13. Lena's voice grew cold. "I don't understand you. I don't understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. If there's two people doing something wrong and one of them's a girl, it's got to be her fault, right?
Paula Hawkins
#14. The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.
Susan May Warren
#15. Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.
Peter F. Hamilton
#16. Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there
Walter Cronkite
#17. Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.
Ovid
#18. He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
Kenneth Eade
#19. With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms, plotting the restoration of the monarchy. One wishes them well but knows deep down that they are not the future.
Rod Dreher
#20. The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
H.L. Mencken
#21. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.
Hillary Clinton
#22. The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
Donna Tartt
#23. Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
Vincent De Paul