Drink Quotes

“These spectacles were staged to purchase the affection of the masses. The republic was dead”
― Iain Gately, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

“Their compliments were almost universal, their warnings few, if dire. Wine was a force for good, a substance that enabled people to relax while simultaneously elevating their minds, inspiring drinkers to “laughter and wisdom and prudence and learning.”
― Iain Gately, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

“Eagerness in drinking is a practice injurious to the partaker. Do not haste to mischief, my friend. Your drink is not being taken from you. It is given you, and waits you.”
― Iain Gately, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol