Herman Melville Quotes

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

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.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.