420 Movie Quotes about Drinking (+ Sound Clips) - page 22

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about drinking, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

211 We are weary of eating and drinking and living aimlessly on this island. We have homes and families waiting for us in Ithaca. -So have I, Eurylochus. So have I.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

212 Let's not think, let's drink. -As in the old days? -As in the old days.

Christopher Plummer as Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

213 Perhaps it'd be a good idea if you just put that bottle right down here in front of me, hmm? Here, save yourself quite a number of trips.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

214 My father used to say, Wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake. -Oh, your father said that? -He drank a lot.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

215 What are you drinking? -I usually drink what costs the most.

Robert Lansing as Dr. Scott Nelson in 4D Man (1959)

216 I'm getting a little bit drunk. That's the first champagne I've had since I was four years old. -No, really?

Edward Everett Horton as Professor Nick Potter in Holiday (1938)

217 That's when you need it most, in the morning. Haven't you learned that yet? At night, this stuff's a drink. In the morning, it's medicine.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

218 Don's a little tight. Most people drink a little. A lot of them get tight once in a while. -Sure. The lucky ones who can take it or leave it. But then there are the ones who can't take it and leave it either.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

219 Where am I? What is this place? -This? This is the Hangover Plaza. -What hospital is this? -Alcoholic Ward.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

220 I want a quart of rye. Quick. -Care if I take off my coat first? -No. No cracks, no questions. Just a quart of rye.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)