“Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.”
“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”
“... coffee should be drunk in equal parts with sugar.”
“the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.”
“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.”
“Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.”