Drinking Quotes - Page 21

• It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

  Jack White

  Play, Rocks, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Afternoon, Worst, Gave Up

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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Aqueducts, Autism, Water

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• This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand

  Tinashe

  Sex, Party, People

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• You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, youre talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Real, Boys

  "Black Rock Down at Sundance". Interview with Jenni Miller, www.gq.com. January 23, 2012.

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• 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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• You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Bottles, Asking

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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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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• Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

  Dorothy Parker

  Thinking, St Francis Of Assisi, Three

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.87, Penguin

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• There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Sweet, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233

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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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• Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Alcohol, Mind, Allergies

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

  Rebecca West

  Addiction, Alcohol, Rewards

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.373, Open Road Media

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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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