Jeffrey Archer Quotes

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

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

I did so many crazy things while drinking.

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

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.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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