Agnes Repplier Quotes

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams had six sons. Two of these were great statesman and four were drunks. For the Adams family it was the White House or the Ale House …. Family pressure is part of what drives people to drink.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

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.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.