Drinking alcohol Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““There is a kind of stupidity among the drunks, particularly when they are sober...”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drinking alcohol
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“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“in this house drunks are like monsters. People think if they ignore them they’ll cease to exist.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“[Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It was just boring, is all. I knew better than to think there was going to be booze after all this time, but still,… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from… — George Montgomery Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image