Quotes on Great Drinking

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.

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 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.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

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.

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

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.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!