Del Shannon Quotes

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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...'

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

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

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

I'm on a whisky diet... last week, I lost three days!

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

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

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

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

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

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

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

I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night.

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.

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.