Alcohol Quotes - The most dangerous drink is gin
“O
God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their
brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“So
what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop
a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”
―
Daniel Silva, The Marching Season
“The
most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that.
And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't
really a drink, it's more a mascara thinner. "Nobody likes my shoes!"
"I made... I made fifty... fucking vol-au-vents, and not one of you... not
one of you... said 'Thank you.'" And my favourite: "Everybody, shut
up. Shut up! This song is all about me.”
―
Dylan Moran
“When
I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be
something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and
fornicate.”
―
Jeffrey Bernard, Reach for the Ground: Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard
“Attempts
to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to
locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949,
nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted at Nuremberg, including Hitler's
former envoy to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, who was found guilty
of planning aggression against Czechoslovakia and committing atrocities against
the Jewish people. On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first
Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing
Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for
membership. In Damascus, eleven newspapers were closed by the regime of General
Hosni Zayim. In America, the National Committee on Alcoholism announced an
upcoming 'A-Day' under the non-uplifting slogan: 'You can drink—help the
alcoholic who can't.' ('Can't'?) The International Court of Justice at The
Hague ruled in favor of Britain in the Corfu Channel dispute with Albania. At
the UN, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko denounced the newly formed NATO
alliance as a tool for aggression against the USSR. The rising Chinese
Communists, under a man then known to Western readership as Mao Tze-Tung,
announced a limited willingness to bargain with the still-existing Chinese
government in a city then known to the outside world as 'Peiping.'
All
this was unknown to me as I nuzzled my mother's breast for the first time, and
would certainly have happened in just the same way if I had not been born at
all, or even conceived. One of the newspaper astrologists for that day
addressed those whose birthday it was:
There
are powerful rays from the planet Mars, the war god, in your horoscope for your
coming year, and this always means a chance to battle if you want to take it
up. Try to avoid such disturbances where women relatives or friends are
concerned, because the outlook for victory upon your part in such circumstances
is rather dark. If you must fight, pick a man!
Sage
counsel no doubt, which I wish I had imbibed with that same maternal lactation,
but impartially offered also to the many people born on that day who were also
destined to die on it.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Come
boy, and pour for me a cup
Of
old Falernian. Fill it up
With
wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear;
Our
host decrees no water here.
Let
dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew,
The
sluggish thin their blood with dew.
For
such pale stuff we have no use;
For
us the purple grape's rich juice.
Begone,
ye chilling water sprite;
Here
burning Bacchus rules tonight!”
―
Catullus, Selections From Catullus: Translated into English verse with an
Introduction on the theory of Translation
“To
be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam
“You
know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?
The
Sixth Sense.
Well,
I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my
mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a
tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling
it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I
can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without
thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour
the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab.
Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
―
Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
“They
sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a
man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In
either a man can be quiet and think.”
―
Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice
“Bottled,
was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic
excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk?
When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well,
nevermind.”
―
Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library
“A
drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for
that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.”
―
Bill Callahan, Letters to Emma Bowlcut
“Squiffy,
have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching
void of the soul?'
'Oh,
rather!'
'What
do you do about it?'
'I
generally take a couple of cocktails.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally
“Ive
created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but
when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a
stick.”
―
José N. Harris
“Alcohol,
I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed
my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink
but for a bit of talk. ”
―
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
“There
are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“All
my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty.
People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who
cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass
to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own. ”
―
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
“I feel like today should be a perfect
Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!”
―
Snooki
“People,
heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think
they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an
hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off,
surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because
one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned.
-
from the Austin Road Trip story”
―
Tucker Max
“My
head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing
for tomorrow.”
―
Irfan Orga, Portrait of a Turkish Family
“I
mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like
a beer that’s been in a brawl.”
―
David Justice
