Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

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.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

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.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

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.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

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

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.