William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.