505 quotes found
“My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.”
“A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.”
“Lucy preferred gin and tonics during the summer and switched over to whiskey sours in the winter. At dinner, a sit-down affair with the family, Lucy drank whatever the Temerlins drank, including ex...”
“His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives--especially th...”
“Need 'nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.'Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. 'Mr. Walsh,' he said severely, 'in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, o...”
“You're walking down Fool's Street, Laura used to say when he was drinking, and she had been right. He had known even then that she was right, but knowing had made no difference; he had simply laugh...”
“My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.”
“At first, I taste bitter but slowly and gradually, I become your best friend at the times of happiness and sorrow. I no longer taste bitter. Then, you crave for me. You cant live without me. Embrac...”
“I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within.”
“Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live.”
“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as if there was a thirst there, a deep and insatiable craving that made the man...”
“Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted of two quick large brandies, followed by several slower ones. By noon breakf...”
“Charity shook her head, struggling to get back into the flow of Lady Margaret's crisply worded presentation. Brandy brought sleep, and a temporary escape from the ache of a broken heart. But in the...”
“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isnt premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that youre drunk and you run into a girl whos also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up ...”
“The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.”
“I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman.”
“Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus."From The Diary Of An Orange Tree”
“I shall always attribute my uncertain start in New Zealand to the fact that I was introduced too early to what is knows as the 'five o'clock swill'. The phrase has, when you consider it, a wonderfu...”
“I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.”
“Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most peop...”
