George Farquhar Quotes

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

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

... like Daniel Webster after taking a pint of brandy.

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

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

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.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

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 Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

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

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

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

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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

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

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.