“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
– Joseph Conrad

“I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I’m so steady, I don’t move for months.”
– WC Fields

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abe Lincoln

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