Sebastian Faulks Quotes

In my family, they were all big boozers.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

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

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.