Everyday Drinking Quotes

“I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive-or worse.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“If you want to finish the evening with your usual number of fingers, do any cutting-up, peel-slicing and the like before you have had more than a couple of drinks, preferably before your first.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“If you want to behave better and feel better, the only absolutely certain method is drinking less. But to find out how to do that, you will have to find a more expert expert than I shall ever be.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“If you don't state a clear preference, then your drink is like a bad game of poker or a hasty drug transaction: It is whatever the dealer says it is. Please do try to bear this in mind.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. —SAMUEL JOHNSON”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken.”
― Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis