Ray Davies Quotes

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

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

Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.

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

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.