Quotes on Drinking Alcohol

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.