Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noel Coward

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Noel Coward

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

Mike Tyson

I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

Miguel de Cervantes

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Miguel de Cervantes

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Miguel de Cervantes

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

The drops of the Lord's Nectar are so beautiful! Meeting the Holy Saint, we drink these in.

The materials don't even have the guts to urge kids to drink less soda pop, or eat less candy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Jonathan Evison

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Coe

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

L. Ron Hubbard

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

Terry Pratchett

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Terry Pratchett

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

Terry Goodkind

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Tennessee Williams

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Simone de Beauvoir

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

Simon Pegg

If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.

Rick Riordan

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Remy de Gourmont

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Reese Witherspoon

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,

Stephen Fry

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Sam Snead

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Rush Limbaugh

Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink.

Raoul Vaneigem

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

Thomas Jefferson

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Robert E. Lee

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Rob Corddry

I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

William T. Vollmann

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

William Proxmire

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

William Butler Yeats

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.