Drinking Quotes · Page 89

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little…

— Marquis de Sade

Your knowledge of wine is almost as impressive as your use of it to disguise your alcoholism.

— Anonymous

When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine…

— David C. Driskell

Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating…

— Ali Shariati

Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.…

— Okakura Kakuzo

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

— Christina Stead

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

— Winston Churchill

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

— Nelson Mandela

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant

“I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.”

— Nenia Campbell

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and…

— David Suzuki

Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am a drinker with writing problems.

— Brendan Behan

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

— Drake

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I…

— Christopher Eccleston

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did…

— Doug Stanhope

My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed.…

— Aaron Bruno

I'm constantly drinking a lot of water to flush my kidneys out. That helps my body.

— Fallon Sherrock

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's…

— Robert Wyatt

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher…

— William Cobbett

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

— Truman Capote

I was a barfly, so going to work and acting and rehearsing and then going and sitting in a bar and drinking…

— John Heard