Alcohol Quote by Graham Greene

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same…

— George Saintsbury

“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink would reassure…

— Pamela Moore

“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and…

— Proverbs 31 67

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

— Ilona Andrews

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not…

— Anonymous

“The rest of the family tree had a root system soggy with alcohol... One aunt had fallen asleep with her face in the mashed…

— Gail Caldwell

“For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem less immediate,…

— R. Scott Bakker

“By half-past one the last drop of pleasure had evaporated, leaving nothing but headaches. We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a…

— George Orwell

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”

— Haruki Murakami

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

— Caprice Crane

“and no illustration of the disastrous effects of reckless indulgence in intoxicating liquors appeals to an audience with such telling force as that of…

— Gilda O'Neill

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

— Eiji Yoshikawa