Teetotalers Quotes

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.