Alcohol Culture Quotes

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

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

I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article "Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk."

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot live without that pleasure

Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

I work until beer o'clock.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.

I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.

Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.