David Nicholls Quotes

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally.

There’s really so much more to me than that.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

I love wine, I love wine reps, I love everything about the drinking world. In fact, as a recovering alcoholic, I adore the drinking world. I can't participate in it any longer and the only thing I don't like are people who don't listen to the words that are coming out of someone else's mouth. Which is why I try very hard to listen to the words that are coming out of someone's mouth.

We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.