Keith Richards Quotes

The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned out exceedingly well. There is a great deal of dissipation here [in Washington DC] At the reception of the British Minister, and that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men, made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity of our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

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

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

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

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article "Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk."

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

The important thing is to be drunk.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.