Alcoholics Quotes · Page 8

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

— Paul Lynde

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

— Michael Robotham

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

— Nancy Astor

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

— Anonymous

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

— Herbert Bayard Swope

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

— Chester Bennington

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

— Ozzy Osbourne

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

— Anonymous

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

— Margaret Smith

The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when…

— Phyllis Diller

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.

— Patti Smith

I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

— Malachy McCourt

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be…

— Betty Ford

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

— W. C. Fields

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I…

— Van Morrison

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't…

— Don Young

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

— Samael Aun Weor

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they…

— Chris Prentiss

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just…

— Jim Carrey

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a…

— Bob Saget

Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once…

— Liam Neeson

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're…

— Yvon Chouinard

Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who…

— David Sedaris

And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I…

— Denis Johnson

The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said,…

— Dennis Hopper

Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink…

— Chelsea Handler

The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize…

— Jerry Stahl

My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my…

— Bernie Siegel

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

— Maya Angelou

I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

— Katie Taylor

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

— Malachy McCourt

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.

— George Carlin

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

— Frankie Boyle

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

— Thomas Szasz

“You know, American alcoholics are pretty fucking hard to insult.”

— Augusten Burroughs