Dashiell Hammett Quotes

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

It's better to have a voice without alcohol in my system from the night before.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.