Alcohol
Quotes - Love is alcohol
“I
would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“Ignorance
is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see
its effect on you.”
―
Jay Bylsma
“Every
gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify
it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will
repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and
realize that it was all you ever had in common.”
―
David Sedaris, Naked
“The
seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked
for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May,
1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley
flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors
to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the
smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare
had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank
alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it
goes.”
―
Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
“The
light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
―
James Joyce, Dubliners
“I
know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he
considered this angle.'
'Where
is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?'
says Peeta.
'With
all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open
flame,' I say.”
―
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“99%
of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's
alcohol.”
―
Quentin R. Bufogle
“Jon:'What
are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion:
'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I
learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Scotch
whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”
―
Warren Ellis
“If
I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila.
And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.”
―
Craig Ferguson
“Research
consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking
alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the
risks.”
―
Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
“It's
4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?”
―
Amy Neftzger
“The
stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of
them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee,
and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey.
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her;
she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.”
―
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“Drunken
men give some of the best pep talks.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“Beer
dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's
yearning.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“What
else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?”
―
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
“What
is this thing you call substance abuse?
All
I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drinking
and smoking over and over
What's
so great about a life that's sober?
There's
nothing cool about being young
When
the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
I'm
tired of searching for words in the sky.
All
I wanna do is drink and die.
Nothing
is real. It's all a big lie.
All
I wanna do is drink and die.
There's
nothing cool about being young
When
the monsters of night have stolen the sun.”
―
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“Sleep
is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and
continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now,
seriously empty your head'.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“I
think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever
Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince
ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of
emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the
gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own
arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a
street corner, trying to force it to bloom.”
―
Douglas Coupland, Life After God
“I
once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme,
and tonight...I agree.”
―
Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“There
was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and
glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“All
worries are less with wine.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“My mind
may be sober, but my confidence is high!”
―
Habeeb Akande
“Maybe
some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some
folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters.
Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.”
―
George Jones, I Lived to Tell It All
“I
see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable
one-half his days and mad the other.”
―
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Take
a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a
drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all
around.”
― H.
Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy
“Love
is alcohol.”
―
Katherine Applegate
“Religion
is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered
