Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.”
As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992) by Jon Winokur, p. 88.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on." by Oscar Levant?
Oscar Levant 42
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor 1906–1972Related quotes
“Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.”
John Selden
(1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Humility.
Table Talk (1689)
“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”
John Hoole
(1727–1803) British translator
Book XXVIII, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”
Il volgare ignorante ognun riprenda,
E parli più di quel che meno intenda.
Canto XXVIII, stanza 1 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”
Holly Black
(1971) American children's fiction writer
Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
1910s
Vivie, Act II
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.”
Kevin Barry
(1902–1920) 18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed by Britain.
Interview with Kevin Barry (c. 2012)