David Lloyd George Quotes

In my family, they were all big boozers.

Make no mistake, liquor is as much a part of the problem as drugs, perhaps a bigger part.

We, like any other state – and probably more so because of the culture here – have problems with alcohol.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

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

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

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

There is a very strong link between alcohol availability, consumption and crime.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

The benefit of drinking alcohol is very minimal and the harm of it is as bad as what a knife can do.

Most of the males have a strong passion for strong drink, especially rum.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

I did so many crazy things while drinking.

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.'

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 admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.