Liquor Quotes - Page 3

• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Food, Book

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drinking, Beer, Animal

  All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

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• I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.

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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Alcohol, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

  John Huston

  God, Drinking, Beer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Alcohol, Want

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• If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

  Joseph M. Schenck

  Lying, Drinking, Drunk

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Wine

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

  James Thurber

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down!

  Ric Flair

  Son, Kissing, Gun

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

  Jonathan Swift

  Alcohol, Lost, Belly

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

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• As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Water, Brandy, Malice

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.34

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• Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Way, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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• There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

  W. C. Fields

  Real, Two, Today

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• Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Way, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Mendacity

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2

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• Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Vices, Virtue

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• Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

  Brock Clarke

  Naps, People, Pills

  Brock Clarke (2011). “Exley”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

  John Lubbock

  Library, Littles, Cost

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• The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Alcohol, Devil, Tools

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• This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Said, Good Place

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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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, Drinking, Swimming

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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