George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

Sometimes the hangover provides inspiration.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.