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

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people." by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

Related quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Mick Jagger photo

“Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
...Raise your glass to the hard working people
...Who need leaders but get gamblers instead”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

"Salt of the Earth" (co-written with Keith Richards) on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet (1968).
Lyrics

Daniel Johns photo

“The water out of the tap is very hard to drink”

Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician

Tomorrow
Song lyrics, Frogstomp (1995)

Kliment Voroshilov photo

“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.”

Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) Soviet military commander

Alec Nove

“My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.”

Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003) English entertainer

Obituary in The Independent http://web.archive.org/web/20100507114758/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bob-monkhouse-549171.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Variant: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

H. Beam Piper photo

“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 book Little Fuzzy

Source: Little Fuzzy

Hunter S. Thompson photo

“Good people drink good beer.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

William Wordsworth photo

“Drink, pretty creature, drink!”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

The Pet Lamb. A Pastoral, st. 1 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Related topics