O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

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

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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.