Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk

Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.

I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, "Tequila! It wakes you right up!" But no.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

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.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.)

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

Somehow I always get stronger when I'm on my second drink

I used to drink wine. This girl asked me, "Doesn't wine give you a headache?" "Yeah, eventually, but the first and the middle part are amazing!"

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

Sometimes it’s gin or sometimes it’s some champagne, and sometimes I go on stage with nothing at all. I’m turnt up, naturally.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.