Drinking Quotes - Page 29

• Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

  Dorothy B. Hughes

  Nice, Adults, Liquor

  Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
  [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Physicians, Plus, Drunkards

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• As the moths around a taper,
  As the bees around a rose,
  As the gnats around a vapour,
  So the spirits group and close
  Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gnats, Rose, Childhood

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853). “Poems”, p.151

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• Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Children, Sea, Soft Drinks

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

  George Santayana

  Spirit, Drink, Should

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

  Juvenal

  Age, Fleeting, Calling

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• These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beer, Thinking, Fire

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Odds, Boredom, Inability

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• Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

  Edith Pearlman

  Book, Reading, People

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• 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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• I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

  Norman Douglas

  Reading, Tea, Wish

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Alcohol, Comforting, May

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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