Quotes about drinking
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“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Men, Dance

“To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!

Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

Love, Waiting

“I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Night

“I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe
tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet.
Don’t make eye contact.”
They all nodded.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Mercury's War

Law

“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters

Idea, Animals

“Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

Soul, Animals

“A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you."
-Liesel”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Reading

“I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr. Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.”

Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant

Source: The Vampire's Assistant

Animals

“I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon

Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Context: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."

“Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“Can't you… I don't know. Find a hobby or something?"
"Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Life

“I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

Hell

“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

The Taming of the Screw (1983)

“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Fly Away

“We were just sitting on the bed, together, and you were just drinking from me, your mouth on my skin, and"

"You mean you didn't look?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

“Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Home, Heart

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Love, Dreams

“i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

Effort, Memory

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age, Appearance, Wine, Reading

“I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Guy

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Love, Life, Color, Understanding

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Tea

“Leo: "So… giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Mountain, Evil, Time

“The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Tea

“Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Evil

“Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

Forgetting

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

Waiting, Personality

“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Source: L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays

Tea

“the world is better without
them.

only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.

I drink to them and with
them.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

World, Animals

“You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Personality, Night

“I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”

Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Guy

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) American journalist and author

Personality

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'…
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Wisdom, Wine

“Bang! Now the animal
Is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun!”

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer

Hi!
Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

Sleep, Animals, Dead

“Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee.
Churchill: If I were your husband I'd drink it.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Dates to 1899, American humor origin, originally featuring a woman upset by a man's cigar smoking. Cigar often removed in later versions, coffee added in 1900. Incorrectly attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952). See various early citations and references to refutations at “If you were my husband, I’d poison your coffee” (Nancy Astor to Churchill?) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_you_were_my_husband_id_poison_your_coffee_nancy_astor_to_churchill, Barry Popik, The Big Apple,' February 09, 2009 Early examples include 19 November 1899, Gazette-Telegraph (CO), "Tales of the Town," p. 7, and early attributions are to American humorists Marshall P. Wilder and De Wolf Hopper. Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, by Richard Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 578. The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 155. George Thayer, The Washington Post (April 27, 1971), p. B6. Misattributed Variant: Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee. Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.

Coffee

“In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could
hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: The Secret

Thinking, Wine

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

People

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Love, Intelligence

“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”

Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar

Time

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Friendship

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Forgiveness, Waiting

“What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him.
"Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Dreams, Failure, Time, Personality

“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Fear, Loneliness

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”

Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar

Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

Love, Food

“A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.'
'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.'
I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Soul, Wine, Forgetting

“It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Life, Water

“Who… who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Water, Wine, Heart

“I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Heart

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Fish, Water

“Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Variant: Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Source: I Know This Much Is True

People

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”

Ray Bradbury book Long After Midnight

Source: Long After Midnight

Hunger, Time, Madness

“I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“They want to be tied up, I tie them up. They want to be spanked, I spank them. They want to be called names, I call them names. But try and drink a little of their blood, and they scream like babies. What about my needs?”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Baby

“I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

Hell, Wine, Time

“Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Time

“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)

People

“Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

World, Feeling, Sense

“I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Variant: I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Smile, Cats

“Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Eternity Code

Spring, Water

“The piano has been drinking, not me.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

"The Piano Has Been Drinking", Small Change (1976).

“Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

Wine

“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”

Vikas Swarup book Q & A

Source: Q & A

“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Nature, Wine

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Love, Life, Death, Money

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Beauty, Peaceful, Season

“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Life

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

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

Dreams, Sleep

“I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.”

Pete McCarthy (1951–2004) British travel writer

Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

Study, Reading

“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Feeling

“The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Source: To Venus and Back

Truth

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Wine

“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”
“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Past

“In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

The Miracle of Mindfulness (1999)
Context: Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

Tea

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life, Forgetting

“… and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl

Life, Home, Thinking

“Marissa, " he mumbled, taking her hand. "Don't want to see you drink so much?" Wait, not really what he'd been going for. "Ah… don't you to see me drink so much… want."

Whatever. God… he was so confused.~Butch”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

God, Waiting

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

War

“Snake people do not drink milk," Kekrops said. "We are lactose intolerant reptiles."
"Me too!" Frank said. "I mean… lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes-”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

People

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Alcohol, Funny

“Is she for real?” He paused and reconsidered. “Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don’t get me wrong. I drink blood and control people’s minds. But I’ve never heard of anything like this.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

People

“Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

Life, Light, Dead

“There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

People

“I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men”

Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Men, Food

“I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn)
I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Guy, Cats, Beer, Housing

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano

Beauty, Hope, Understanding

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”

Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book

Introduction, p. v.
Source: Steal This Book (1971)
Context: Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright

Source: The Fat Woman's Joke

Books, Food, Sleep

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