Quotes on Great Alcohol

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.