Problem Drinking Quotes

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...'

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

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

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

In the back of my mind for many years, I had always felt that my relationship with alcohol, although seemingly harmless was unhealthy and somewhat destructive.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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

Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.

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

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

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

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

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

I think if you drink too much and you're told you drink too much, typically you don't like it. I know I didn't.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

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

I've always loved my red wine, and when I'm not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it's one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

People close to me wouldn't have thought that I had a drinking problem because it wasn't evident although towards the very end of my drinking perhaps it became a little bit more of an issue.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

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

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

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.