Vikas Swarup Quotes

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

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.

You know what my drink is? Jack Daniel's. Yes, that is a wild man drink. That should come with bail money, you know what I'm saying? Because on Jack, you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there, you won't be wearing any pants.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

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.