Alcohol Quote by William Shakespeare

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

— William Shakespeare

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes…

— William Shakespeare

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

— Michael Shurtleff

Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you…

— Irish Proverb

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as…

— Tallulah Bankhead

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

— H. L. Mencken

Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the…

— Alexander Herzen

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach…

— Charles Caleb Colton

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts…

— Horace

Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the…

— Alexander Herzen

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

— Abraham Cowley

“...to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It has given…

— John Steinbeck