John Osborne Quotes

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task