Alcohol Quote by David Sax

“William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.”

— Salman Rushdie

“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage,…

— George R.R. Martin

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife”

— Scott Lynch

“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a week or…

— P.J. Sidey

“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible oppression, injustice,…

— George Orwell

“The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in ale or…

— Thomas De Quincy

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes…

— Seneca

“I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed,…

— Thomas de Quincey

The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness.

— Marcel Desailly

“It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would…

— Eoghan Odinsson