Drinking - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine inflame them. — Bible

The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk. — Luis Bunuel

Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self - preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self - preservation. — Brandon Sanderson Shadows of Self

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and...

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

In Irena's head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at...

And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. One little beer's not going to hurt ya. You haven't had a drink for three years. You can handle it.'...

Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.

What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself...

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

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