Graham Greene Quotes

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

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.