F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Drunkenness is the Touch Stone by which they try every man; and he that cannot or will not drink, has a mark set upon Him. He is abused behind his Back. He is hurt in his Property, and he is persecuted as far as the Power of Malice and Intemperance.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Although Drunkenness be justly termed a vice which the Salvages are ignorant of, yet the benefit is very great that comes to the planters by the sale of strong liquor to the Salvages, who are much taken with the delight of it; for they will pawn their wits, to purchase the acquaintance of it.

… a jackass in the original package. He is a poor drunken imbecile.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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