Alcohol Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of…

— Christopher Hitchens

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

— Pamela Dean

Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too.

— Lubos Motl

For me, alcohol just has a negative effect.

— Joey Barton

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the…

— Marguerite Duras

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new…

— Horace

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

— Joan Acocella

“For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the…

— Caroline Knapp

“[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused…

— Crimethinc

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

— Oscar Wilde

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

— Hermann von Helmholtz