947 Quotes About Alcohol

If drinking alcohol gives people Dutch courage, then drinking coffee gives me Dutch energy.

He had to find her. But where? Ted deliberated this question while downing three espressos in the hotel lobby, letting the caffeine and vodka greet in his brain like fighting fish. Where to look for Sasha in this sprawling, malodorous city? He reviewed the strategies he'd already failed to execute: approaching dissolute kids at the train station and youth hostels, but no, no. He'd waited too long for any of that." (p. 224)

OH DAMN LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS HAVING A PARTY. TIME TO TRANSFER THE ENTIRE LIQUOR CONTENT OF THAT PARTY INTO MY BODY.

Not a single alcohol has a human problem.

Well," she asked, "how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?""It's perfectly fine," Luke said, "perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.

He came of a race of drinkers who look contemptuously upon an alcoholic content of twelve percent, unaware that the fermented grape works its enchantments more subtly than the distilled spirits of grain. I do not imply that he was drunk; let us say, rather, that the Tears of Christ opened his heart.

I don't need alcohol to see the world in its depths, I carry the sun in me. - On Being Inebriated.

ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.

People who quit drinking become terrified they will lose their power. They believe booze makes them the people they want to be...Alcohol is one hell of a pitchman, and perhaps his greatest lis is convincing us we need him, even as he tears us apart.