Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

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

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.