Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Drinking

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  • Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

  • I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

    Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

    Ernest Hemingway (2002). “To Have and Have Not”, p.143, Simon and Schuster
  • Drinking is a way of ending the day.

  • The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.8524, Simon and Schuster
  • I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.531, Simon and Schuster
  • I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

    Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster
  • A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
  • I drink to make other people more interesting.

    "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.
  • All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

  • He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

  • I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
  • Write drunk; edit sober.

  • Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster
  • An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

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