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“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”
“Mulled ale for the frozen man,And mulled ale for the weary:For mulled ale is the body's friendAnd makes the sick heart merry.”
“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son o...”
“If we'd done this my way,' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.''And drunk, most likely,' said Maiev.'You say "drunk," I say "happy",' Garrett shrugged.”
“Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.”
“Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.”
“Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a persons sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also t...”
“She was thinking of doing a little Cuervo therapy.”
“There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.”
“Im only doing one more, Ruby said, scrolling through her phone. Nobody likes a day-drunk hussie.Hey, give yourself some credit. Youll be a really cute day- drunk hussie.”
“Child, youve been trying to drown your sorrows for some time now. And the problem with that plan is, you cant drown sorrows. Theyre good swimmers. Theyre gonna float back up to the top and be bobbi...”
“i've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily”
“I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.”
“Think about it. When you reach 18 you're no longer an underage drinker. This means that drinking is no longer an act of rebellion, and so there's no point in doing it any more. You've got to find s...”
“The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.”
“There was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.”
“Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship wit...”
“A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it.”
“The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.”
“More wine," Lightsong said, raising his cup."You can't get drunk, Your Grace," Llarimar noted. "Your body is immune to all toxins.""I know," Lightsong said as a lesser servant filled his cup. "But ...”
