Drinking Alcohol Quotes

“I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses; heavy red wine glupped into the goblets, thick and crimson as the blood of some mythical monster, and a swirling wreath of pink bubbles formed on the surface; the frosty white wine tiptoed into the glasses, shrilling, gleaming, now like diamonds, now like topaz; the ouzo lay transparent and innocent as the edge of a mountain pool until the water splashed in and the whole glass curdled like a conjuring trick, coiling and blurring into a summer cloud of moonstone white.”
― Gerald Durrell, The Garden of the Gods

“And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere.”
― Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

“Bonnie was so drunk she could hardly walk. ... I had always felt sorry for her, having to live the life she was living, never a minute’s peace. She had often told me she was happier when she had something to drink. So I did not blame her for staying drunk most of the time, if it made her feel better.”
― Blanche Caldwell Barrow, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

“The Great Carouser by Stewart Stafford

The Great Carouser approaches,
His belly as stacked cheddar rolls,
Used as a springboard for lust,
And a battering ram for tavern doors.

Shrieks of terror and welcome,
Greet his arrival with ale demands,
Tankards clank and merriment begins,
Lewd ditties and jokes by the bar.

Balancing acts on tables,
With tongues held hostage,
By braggadocio squatters,
In an intoxicated stranglehold.

Slurred speech and equilibrium loss,
Signal festivities end for the gang,
Staggering out into the starlit street,
Partners on each arm for shady exertions.

Then waking as if mauled by a bear,
A quick drink and a greasy feast initiated,
For the strange girls snoring in his bed,
The Great Carouser has struck again.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“No matter what you're having, you can toast knowing that women had a part in its it's history. Saying that some types of alcohol are better, more noble, more masculine to drink than others is just outright silly. . . . All drinks are girly drinks.”
― Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

“In alcohol's defence, I've done some idiotic shit sober.”
― Mark Millar, King of Spies

“Alas, I drinketh and my brain doth shrinketh.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“They're clinking glasses and knocking it back to their hearts' content. Tastes so good they can't stop. Ain't you heard the old saying: 'Money comes from God and the Devil collects it?' Well, the Devil's collecting his share now.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. "
"Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well."
"Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“The tram almost ran me over when I tried to cross the street. The exhilaration made me remember the vials of Jägermesiter I had bought exactly for a moment like this.”
― Lucian Vicovan, Another fall from grace

“What happens to us when we get drunk is a function of the particular path the alcohol takes as it seeps into our brain tissue. The effects begin in the frontal lobes, the part of our brain behind our forehead that governs attention, motivation, planning, and learning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“By trying to drown your problems in alcohol you are drowning yourself.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“. . . Hoffman-La Roche [the manufacturer of Rohypnol] declared that alcohol was the number one date-rape drug. . . . they put the onus on women to protect their own drinks and avoid assault. There was an air of 'Well, if you left your drink unattended. . .' or 'Well, if you didn't go out drinking. . .' as if sexual assault was not an intentional crime but rather some kind of arbitrary force of nature, like a heavy rain, that could be avoided with good planning. Spiking someone's drink sounds innocuous, but it is nothing short of evil.”
― Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

“No matter what you're having, you can toast knowing that women had a part in its history. Saying that some types of alcohol are better, more noble, more masculine to drink than others is just outright silly. . . . All drinks are girly drinks.”
― Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

“Drinking helps you remember images of the past that you love and revere. It's all wonderfully intoxicating.”
― Garry Fitchett

“Happiness is waking up without a hangover.”
― Jack Freestone

“It was a woman who drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“I prefer music to think to, not drink to.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Partying at Cody's sober was a strange experience. She felt like she was in a museum, sneaking under the guardrails for a closer look at the exhibits. She noticed the details, the sadness behind smiles, the tired faces, strained with pretend happiness. She was comforted, in a way, to know that she wasn't the only one who sometimes faked it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“You start drinking alcohol, then alcohol starts drinking you.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“In my experience, drinking is the only way to retain your balls. When I stop drinking for long periods, I am always surprised when I begin drinking again, by how weak I have become. So, when your partner tells you, you cannot drink anymore, you have two choices, to wave the white flag and lose your balls, or fight to get them back.”
― Jack Freestone

“He'd never understand why his drinking bothered Flora. To him, it was just something that had to happen, like sunrise, or death.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“...had seen what the drink did to him, and it was a road she didn't want to follow him down. She'd tried to love him out of it, nagging and begging and pleading with him. But there was nothing she could do, and she'd long since lost the energy to fight the currents so bent on drowning him. It didn't make it stop hurting to watch, though. It never stopped hurting.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“I can’t stop
Drinking
About her -”
― Isbelle Razors

“There is Not Enough Fruit & Vegetables - to Balance of Nature and Offset my Vodka and Pizza Consumption”
― Kevin Kolenda

“It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle.”
― Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

“Since my body is a temple I try to eat only healthy foods. Then again, I am half-Irish and half-German so I drink a lot of beer too!”
― James Hauenstein

“I stopped drinking to do things, rather than to spend my time talking about stopping drinking”
― Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir