Friday

Drinking Quotes

Kingsley Amis explains why moderns drink: "While the village remained the social unit, strangers appeared seldom, and when they did were heavily outnumbered by your family, your friends, people you had known all your life. Nowadays, in the era of the business lunch, the dinner party, the office party, the anything-and-everything party, strangers pour over the horizon all the time. The reason why I, and most others, usually turn out to enjoy meeting such creatures is simply and obviously the co-presence of drink."

And Amis on cultivating marital harmony: "Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. Get one of your own and have it fitted with racks the thickness of a bottle apart."