Quotes about Drinking

Gilbert Archer: Come in, Reverend. I've been expecting you.
Matthew Stoker: Were you indeed, Mr. Archer?
Gilbert Archer: Make yourself comfortable. What'll you have, scotch or bourbon?
Matthew Stoker: Bourbon, please. I indulge on rare occasions.
Gilbert Archer: Naturally. Why not? If you consult your Bible, you'll find a verse that prescribes a little wine for your stomach's sake.
Matthew Stoker: Mr. Archer, you're a never-ending source of amazement. And you have a Bible! Now isn't that...
Gilbert Archer: Cozy? Yes. Sit down, sit down, Reverend.
Matthew Stoker: Thank you.
Gilbert Archer: How's Mrs. Stoker, and your choirboy Rausch?
Matthew Stoker: Oh, both very well, thank you. Madame had a previous engagement or she'd have come with me. As for Rausch - well, I thought that on this occasion we could dispense with his impetuosity.
Gilbert Archer: Well, I was sure you'd bring him with you, knowing how stubborn I am to do business with.
Matthew Stoker: Yes, Mr. Archer, but this time I came convinced that you'd be cooperative.
Gilbert Archer: You did?
Matthew Stoker: Of course, my dear boy. It came to me in a revelation.
Gilbert Archer: I don't know where you bought the revelation, Reverend, but you've been gypped.

- Lee Bowman in The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

Darios: [after seeing a court servant die from drinking poison] Somehow I've lost my desire for wine.
[he pours his wine out onto the floor]

- Rory Calhoun in Il Colosso di Rodi (1961)

Lot: I didn't come here to be drowned in wine and smothered in cushions.

- Stewart Granger in Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Spats Colombo: [when his speakeasy is raided] What's the rap this time?
Mulligan: Embalming people with coffee - 86 proof.

- Pat O'Brien (as Det. Mulligan) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Helen St. James: We're both trying, Don. You're trying not to drink, and I'm trying not to love you.

- Jane Wyman (as Helen St. James) in The Lost Weekend (1945)

[Nat moves to wipe away the circle of whisky from Don Birnam's glass]
Don Birnam: Don't wipe it away, Nat. Let me have my little vicious circle. You know, the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning.

- Ray Milland (as Don Birnam) in The Lost Weekend (1945)

Jamie: I always sample a bottle of wine before I buy it. Let's have a sip, see if you're worth taking along.

- Tyrone Power (as Jamie Waring) in The Black Swan (1942)

Jamie: You're not going to leave me in Jamaica?
Lady Margaret Denby: That I don't know. I always sample a bottle of wine before I buy it. Come on, let's have a sip... see if you're worth taking along... (they kiss)

- Maureen O'Hara (as Lady Margaret Denby) in The Black Swan (1942)

El Supremo: Make known your needs to Admiral Hernandez.
Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N: Aside from water, I shall need 200 bullocks, 500 pigs, 100 quintals of salt, 40 tons of flour, ten tons of sugar, five tons of tobacco, one ton of coffee, the juice of 40,000 limes and, um, are there any wines to be had here?
Hernandez: We drink a spirit distilled from molasses which you probably do not know. We call it rum. Will that do?
Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N: Ha-hmm. Well, if there's nothing better that will have to do. One hundred barrels.

- Gregory Peck (as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N) in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Mary: Bread... that this house may never know hunger.
[Mary hands a loaf of bread to Mrs. Martini]
Mary: Salt... that life may always have flavor.
[Mary hands a box of salt to Mrs. Martini]
George Bailey: And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever. Enter the Martini Castle.
[George hands Mr. Martini a bottle of wine]

- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)