Men Quote by Ben Lerner

“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the…

— Anne Fadiman

“My humble...I don't drink...' 'A shame! What about a game of dice, then? Or do have some other favourite game? Dominoes? Cards? 'I don't…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature?”

— Nick Hornby

“stop for a drink, which made him feel”

— Jeffrey Archer

“When all was said and done, the endeavors that most modern men saw as urgent (such as appointments with bankers and the catching of…

— Amor Towles

“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented…

— Donal Ryan

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as…

— Charles Bukowski