Winston Churchill Quotes

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

[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.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

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.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.