Terry Pratchett Quotes

I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.

I don't love mixed drinks.

I love awesome mixed drinks.

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.