Nancy Astor Quotes

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.

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.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.

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

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

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

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I've never, ever tasted beer.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.