Drinking Quotes - Page 22

• I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Goats, Tick, Mink

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Whiskey, Sometimes, Vow

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of self-justification. Ennui. The dun”, p.28

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• if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Men, Shining

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Tea, United States

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

  Ellen Glasgow

  May, Misery, Distraction

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Lonely, Morning, New York

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• I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Son, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Real, Lying, Secret

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

  Brantley Gilbert

  Song, People, Singing

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• There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Men, Ties, Drunk

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• I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

  Rita Dove

  Jobs, Water, Skins

  Rita Dove (1985). “Fifth Sunday: stories”, Callaloo Poetry Series

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• Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Nice, Long, Worry

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Reluctant Dragon”, p.25, Booklassic

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• Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

  Nancy Astor

  Giving, Promise, Alcoholism

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• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  Queen Victoria

  Practice, Alcohol, Abstinence

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• It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

  Nathanael West

  Solitary, Drunkards

  Nathanael West (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

  Marguerite Duras

  Mind, Able, Killing

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Thinking, Killing, Wanting To Die

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

  Stella Benson

  Chocolate, Moments, Cocoa

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Swimming, Thinking

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Doors, Rallying Cry, Bed

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• when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

  Margaret Halsey

  Flocks, Spokes, Euphemism

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• I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

  Shelagh Delaney

  People, Sorrow, Forget

  Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

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• The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

  Wendy Liebman

  Sex, Safe, Way

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Cat, Clothes

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• nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

  Isabelle Holland

  Cost, Stop Drinking, Higher

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