Tracey Emin Quotes

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

Physical fitness is a farce without self-control, judgment, and discretion, which are the three qualities of mind first to be dulled by and made incompetent by the use of alcohol

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.