Time Quote by Irvine Welsh

“No, he didn’t drink because he’d seen every kind of reason for diving into a bottle, seen them up close and personal. But he’d…

— Eliza Maxwell

“My father always said not to drink when you had secrets to keep. You never know what might come out.  ”

— C.M. Owens

“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.”

— Filippo Bologna

“The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it,…

— Irène Némirovsky

“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

“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.”

— Olen Steinhauer

“I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have…

— Daniel Quinn

“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

“Never trust a man who doesn't drink.”

— W.C. Fields

“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.”

— Nick Flynn

“He went to the bar and stood there a while. But he was in the way of people getting their drinks. He moved to…

— Melissa Banks

“I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.”

— John Steinbeck