Graeme Simsion Quotes

A man should be able to have a whiskey in the evening without jeopardizing his health

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

The country will be on a straight whisky basis, and in these days of unrest, it is dangerous to have steady beer drinkers switch to whisky.

Election days were drinking days.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.

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

A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'

Payday came and with it beer

Music is important for one's health.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.