Brendan Behan Quotes

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

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

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

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

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.