William Faulkner Quotes

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

The speech of a Creek—Indian, against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors. Delivered in a national assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late war.

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

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

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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.

I need you to read more and drink less.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

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

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.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.