George Orwell Quotes

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

Why don't we get drunk and screw?

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

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

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

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

From the very beginning I started with a beer and a cigarette because I couldn't figure out what to do with my hands. So usually I have a beer and cigarette and that's what I was doing with my hands because that looked natural and felt good.

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

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

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

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

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