Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Make no mistake, liquor is as much a part of the problem as drugs, perhaps a bigger part.