Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.”So that I may forget,” replied the tippler.”Forget what?” inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.”Forget that I am ashamed,” the tippler confessed, hanging his...

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn’t dead...

Write drunk. Edit Sober.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing…

Cover your glass in France or Germany –even worse, in England – and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you’re not drinking. ‘Oh, I just don’t feel...

If you could pour my love like it was a bottle of wine, would you have one glass or two? That was a trick question, because the answer is you’d drink it all—straight out of...

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the...

Pops: How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no she means…Justin, looking desperately at me: No?Nana: Are you sure?Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I’m sure. No means no.Nana: Well look at...

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning… No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire...

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

Its funny whenever people who have’nt seen me in years meet up with me again and they are surprised that I’m not as shy and quiet as I was in the past, I credit that...

When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening’s...

It comes in pints?

I’m drinking away the exam results that don’t take me anywhere.

Ale, man, Ale’s the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting...

Good people drink good beer.

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you’re pregnant…if you’re planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled – by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform...

Everyone should drink of me, but I shouldn’t be drunk by everyone. I should be drunk all by myself.

I can always say no to a bottle of booze, but only after saying yes to the alcohol inside.

A father and son walked into a bar, and the bartender didn’t serve either because the one didn’t look old enough. And he was right. Who becomes a dad in middle school?

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.””We always go out on Fridays.””It’s Thursday, Alvis.””You are so tied to routine.

Nancy Astor: “Winston, you are a drunk!”Winston Churchill: “And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

To be certain you’re consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the “e,” it’s from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

… it’s a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn’t laugh.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven’t touched a drop of...

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell...

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn’t the kind of girl you’d ask again: she’d ended up showing off everything she’d got, and she’d puked...

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.

I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day… Let’s just get wastey-pants!

Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.

I also drink Scotch. But I’m not picky. I’ll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can’t predict anything about him...

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.’Jack,’ my grandmother announced, ‘I am thinking of coming to stay.’ My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his...

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become obvious yourself.

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went...

They said ‘ski’, but they heard ‘vodka’!

I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?

God gave man feet for which to walk. And crush grapes. Can I get you a glass of wine? It’s homemade, though it kind of smells funky.