Drinkers Quotes

“The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point — and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior — smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians.”

“I'll be damned if I'm the weak link in a line of cognac drinkers.”

“Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.”

“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

“After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.”

“I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.”

“Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.”

“It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.”

“With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.”