Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities. I Timothy 5:23
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. Stonewall Jackson
I’m not pissed. I only had about nine. The Royle Family s1e5: Another Woman, BBC 1998
I think I’ve got liver failure. ibid. Jim
Gosh, drink is sure a filthy thing isn't it? Batman 1966 starring Adam West & Burt Ward & Lee Meriwether & Cesar Romero & Burgess Meredith & Frank Gorshin & Alan Napier & Neil Hamilton & Stafford Repp & Madge Blake & Reginard Denny & Milton Frome & Gil Perkins & Dick Crockett et al, director Leslie H Martinson
They may be drinkers, Robin, but they're also human beings. ibid. Batman
London is in the grip of addiction. Gin. It’s dirt cheap. And it’s turning the capital into a nest of vice and destruction. Henry Hitchings, Birth of the British Novel, BBC 2011
This is my church [drinks]. Dorian Gray 2009 starring Ben Barnes & Colin Firth & Ben Chaplin & Rachel Hurd-Wood & Johnny Harris & Rebecca Hall & Emilia Fox & Fiona Shaw & Maryan d'Abo & Caoline Goodall et al, director Oliver Parker
I am a person who drinks. People who drink need to keep drinking otherwise … Game of Thrones s5e5: Kill the Boy, dwarf, HBO 2014
My God, you can swill it down, can’t you? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton & George Segal & Sandy Dennis & Agnes Flanagan & Frank Flanagan, director Mike Nichols, him to her
Wise Man: We are led by a star.
Mother of Brian: Led by a bottle more like. Monty Python’s Life of Brain 1979 starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin & Carol Cleveland & Patricia Quinn & Judy Loe & Simon Jones & Matt Frewer & Jane Leeves et al, director Terry Jones
Laurie: How does it taste?
Rosie: Like fire. Cider with Rosie ***** 2015 starring Samantha Mortin & Archie Cox & Ruby Ashbourne Serkis & Emma Curtis & Jessica Hynes & June Whitfield & Annette Crosbie & Timothy Spall & Billy Howle & Georgie Smith et al, director Philippa Lowthorpe, BBC 2015
I’ve got the mother of all fucking hangovers. Oh my God like you wouldn't believe – If I have a heavy night, I er compensate the next morning – exercise, antioxidants, you know … Ex Machina 2015 starring Domhnall Gleeson & Oscar Isaac & Alicia Vikander & Sonoya Mizuno & Symara A Templeman & Elina Alminas & Gana Bayarsaikhan & Tiffany Pisani & Clarie Selby & Corey Johnson et al, director Alex Garland, Nathan to Caleb
Among fifteen-to-twenty-four-year-olds, alcohol is the leading cause of death, also serving as a ‘gateway’ drug that leads to use of others, according to the National Council on Alcoholism. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
According to these estimates, over 99 per cent of deaths from substance abuse are attributable to tobacco and alcohol. ibid.
There are people, I know, to be found
Who say, and apparently think,
That sorrow and care may be drowned
By a timely consumption of drink … J K Stephen, Drinking Song
In Queen Victoria’s early days,
When Grandpapa was Vicar,
The squire was worldly in his ways,
And far too fond of liquor.
My grandsire laboured to exhort
This influential sinner,
As to and from they passed the port
On Sunday after dinner ... Colin Ellis, The New Vicar of Bray
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
He took down from the shelf a bottle of colourless liquid with a plain white label marked VICTORY GIN. It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese race-spirit. Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, and gulped it down like a dose of medicine.
Instantly his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of his eyes. The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. George Orwell, 1984
Around eight million people in the UK are considered alcohol-dependent. I’m an Alcoholic: My Name is … Channel 5 2016
Saint: So who do you fancy for the sixth round, Greavesie?
Greaves: Well it’s gotta be you really, Saint. I bought the last five. Spitting Image s2e4, ITV 1985
I like the sensation as it goes down my throat. Louis Theroux, Drinking to Oblivion, BBC 2016, alcoholic in casualty, BBC 2016
In January the government released its new proposed guidelines for alcohol, and for the UK’s forty million drinkers it was all pretty sobering. The Truth About Alcohol, BBC 2016
Did we ever think alcohol was that good for our health? ibid.
Size and body shape really makes a difference. Alcohol dehydrates us. ibid.
Lining your stomach works. ibid.
In the second half of the night there is a rebound effect – you have fragmented, lighter sleep … booze doesn’t really help you snooze. ibid.
Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Blanche: Open your pretty mouth and talk while I look around for some liquor! I know you much have some liquor in this place! Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy! Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Liver disease is the fastest growing illness in Britain. Dispatches: Drinking Yourself to Death, Channel 4 2007
Government figures suggest up to one and a half million people may be developing livers like this [sclerosis] without realising it. ibid.
Liver disease is a quiet killer. ibid.
That makes Punjab one of the highest per capita consumers of liquor in the world. Glut, The Untold Story of Punjab, 2010
American moonshine is big business. High proof low cost, untaxed and illegal. Whether it comes from the boondocks or from high-end producers. Underworld Inc s2e1: Moonshine Mayhem, 2015
In Mississippi first-offence possession of moonshine carries a penalty of up to three months in jail. ibid.
‘This is my lil’ juke joint.’ ibid.
Mash: a mix of cornmeal, sugar, yeast and water that ferments to produce alcohol. ibid.
In New York City illicit booze-makers have developed a drink of their own … elixir of fruit juice, whisky, vodka, schnapps and rum … he sells frozen nutcrackers across all five boroughs. ibid.
‘I try and be good but at a certain point – four or five drinks – then all of a sudden you screw it and you stop caring.’ Risky Drinking, Sky Atlantic 2017
‘I reach a point where I don’t remember.’ ibid.
Nearly 70% of American adults drink alcohol: are you a risky drinker? ibid.
Binge drinking accounts for more than half of the alcohol consumed by adults in the US. ibid.
Less than 20% of people with an alcohol use disorder receive treatment. ibid.
About 80% of people with an alcohol use disorder will relapse within the first year of sobriety. ibid.
‘I can’t see us getting together and playing bingo.’ ibid. happy hour drinking mums
Although more men than women have an alcohol use disorder the gap is narrowing. ibid.
One in six women will develop an alcohol-related health problem including cancer, heart disease, and liver damage. ibid.
‘Shit! I’m gonna die.’ ibid. Neal
Neal has been in and out of detox and rehab twelve times in the last four years. ibid.