# Quotes about alcohol - Quotes: 12 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol ## Quotes > We crawled up to bed, tumbled down half dressed, and stayed there ten hours. Most of my Saturday nights went like this. On the whole, the two hours when one was perfectly and wildly happy seemed worth the subsequent headache. For many men in the quarter, unmarried and with no future to think of, the weekly drinking-bout was the one thing that made life worth living. [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Down and Out in Paris and London](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london/we-crawled-up-to-bed.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [The Sun Also Rises](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-also-rises.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-also-rises/this-wine-is-too.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > A bottle of wine was good company. [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [The Sun Also Rises](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-also-rises.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-also-rises/a-bottle-of-wine.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux. Oh, I am so soused.” [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [In Our Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/in-our-time.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/in-our-time/everybody-was-drunk.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > And, when night > > Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons > > Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/and-when-night.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > In every age the Persians have been addicted to intemperance, and the wines of Shiraz have triumphed over the law of Mahomet. [Edward Gibbon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon.md) · [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/in-every-age.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir’s barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes—and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody’s elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour’s elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter. [Emile Zola](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola.md) · [Germinal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/germinal.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/germinal/all-round-there.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please. [P.J. O'Rourke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke.md) · [Holidays in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/holidays-in-hell.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/holidays-in-hell/only-one-way.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. [P.J. O'Rourke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke.md) · [Holidays in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/holidays-in-hell.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pj-orourke/holidays-in-hell/it-had-never.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was —he was just all mud. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/he-had-been.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > In fact the only thing that I don't like about Whisky, is that if I take the merest sip of the stuff, it sends a sharp pain from the back of my left eyeball down to the tip of my right elbow, and I begin to walk in a very special way, bumping into people and snarling at the furniture. I have therefore learned to turn my attention to other tipples. Margaritas, I'm very fond of, but they make me buy very stupid things. When ever I've had a few margaritas I always wake up in the morning with a sense of dread as to what I will find downstairs. The worst was a 6ft long pencil and a 2ft wide India rubber that I had shipped over from New York, as a result of one injudicious binge. [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md) · [The Salmon of Doubt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-salmon-of-doubt.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-salmon-of-doubt/in-fact-the.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > A number of social problems arose. I had been told that neither smoking nor alcoholic beverages were allowed in the [Saudi] Royal Presence. As I was the host at luncheon I raised the matter at once, and said to the interpreter that if it was the religion of His Majesty [Ibn Saud] to deprive himself of smoking and alcohol I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. The King graciously accepted the position. His own cup-bearer from Mecca offered me a glass of water from its sacred well, the most delicious I had ever tasted. [Winston Churchill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-churchill.md) · [The Second World War: Closing The Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-churchill/the-second-world-war-closing-the-ring.md) · p. 348 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-churchill/the-second-world-war-closing-the-ring/a-number-of-social.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md)