George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

I drink to forget I drink.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.