Charles Lamb Quotes

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

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

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

God slaps you around a little bit when you drink too much.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

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

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

The speech of a Creek—Indian, against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors. Delivered in a national assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late war.

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

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

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

The temperance movement must include all poisonous substances which create or excite unnatural appetite, and international prohibition is the goal.