Lawrence Osborne Quotes

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

I love champagne, but I don't have champagne every night. If I go out, and I want to have a drink, I'll have a glass of champagne.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

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

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.