Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts

I like beer.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, "Tequila! It wakes you right up!" But no.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

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.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

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 so obvious yourself.