Anne Enright Quotes

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

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

If we could make men sober, we would have no slavery.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

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

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Theodore [Roosevelt] is never sober. Only he is drunk with himself and not with rum.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

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.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.