Drinking Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

  Eartha Kitt

  Thinking, People, These Days

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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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• It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Alcohol

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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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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Strong, Order, Enough

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• anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Poor, Alcoholism, Extras

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• There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Men, Law, Opposites

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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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• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  Beatrice Webb

  Alcohol, Lines, Force

  1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

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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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• The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

  Emily Carr

  Lying, Rain, Sea

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.52, D & M Publishers

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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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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Alcoholism, Deceiver, One Thing

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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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