Drinking Quotes - Page 30

• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fighting, Making Love, Three

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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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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• Whoever I had become had to die.

  Craig Ferguson

  Alcohol, Dies

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  House, Alcohol, Grew Up

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• The wages of Gin is Debt.

  Ethel Mumford

  Wages, Debt, Wit

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• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  Ethel Mumford

  Heart, Absinthe, Wit

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• Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

  Koren Zailckas

  Firsts, Remember, Minutiae

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.12, Penguin

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• It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Fall, People, Mind

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Writing, School

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Long, Drug

  "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who comes and collects my stools, and then examines them to see if I'm eating right and if I should be drinking more water and what my moods should be.

  Tina Fey

  People, Water, Stylist

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

  Billy Crystal

  Grateful, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

  Marvin Shanken

  Memories, Wine, Glasses

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