P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

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

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

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.

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

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

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

When it comes to me and alcohol, I have special drinks everywhere.

There's nothing better than a cold beer.

I received the same kind of question many times. Do I drink? Of course I do. I do what all others do.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

I like getting blotto at parties but I also like being sober and I hate the hangover.

I'm not usually a drinker.

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

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

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

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.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.