Alcohol/alcoholism Quotes

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped drinking, I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.

John Larroquette

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Anton Chekhov

And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Sir William Watson

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

W. C. Fields

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

W. C. Fields

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

W. C. Fields

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

W. C. Fields

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

William James

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Ernest Hemingway

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

Denzel Washington

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Marguerite Duras

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras