Humphrey Bogart Quotes

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

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

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I've never done a drug. I don't drink. I refuse to alter my mind in any way.

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

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

What's the point of staying sober?

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'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

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

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

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.