It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.
When you have too many beers, you become like a control freak on everything.
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.
I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.
I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.
I like the effect drink has on me.
Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.
Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
