Booth Tarkington Quotes

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

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

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.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

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

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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.

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.

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...'

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

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.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.