Alcohol Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived…

— John Ruskin

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

— Horace

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but…

— Walter Raleigh

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

— Francis Bacon

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

— Mahatma Gandhi

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

— Plato

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon…

— William Graham Sumner

The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But…

— William Topaz McGonagall

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

— William Butler Yeats