F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

I didn't drink for two years.

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

I don't drink at all.

I prefer being a non-drinker.

I've never had a sip of alcohol.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

I don't even drink.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

I never drink... wine.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.