1,261 Quotes About Drinking
- Author Sinclair Lewis
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He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.
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- Author Nic Pizzolatto
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I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar... work four nights a week... in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a... victory in that.
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- Author George Thorogood
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I'm tired of putting up With your sober wit Tired of looking at you Through an alcoholic haze You better change I'm begging you please 'Cause if you don't start drinkin' I'm gonna leave
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- Author Will Oldham
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I am drinking againI'm on my seventh cold glass of ginLife is a tribute to youAnd so is dyingAnd drinking in this wayTo die is what I'm tryingI am drinking againI'm on my ninth cold glass of gin
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- Author Will Oldham
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I was drunk at the pulpit, I knew it was wrong.And I left in mid-sermon, tempted by a bar-house song.The pews they creaked and shifted as they turned to watch me leave,And I pulled a little bottle from the pocket in my sleeve.
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- Author Lev Grossman
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Every morning when he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by five o'clock in the afternoon.
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- Author George Orwell
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The cost of reading, even if you buy books instead of borrowing them and take in a fairly large number of periodicals, does not amount to more than the combined cost of smoking and drinking.
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- Author Anna Burns
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She had a glass of Bushmills in one hand and a glass of Bacardi in the other because she was still at that stage of working out what to have for her first drink.
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- Author Karl Wiggins
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In every glass of water we drink there are molecules once urinated by Genghis Khan
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