Will Shakespeare on alcohol
"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
totally. Actually, I think the story on Churchill is that he was seated across from a very ugly woman at a dinner party, and (as usual) he was in his cups. Whereupon he peered over at her, and said something like "Madam, you are the ugliest woman I have ever sat at a dinner table with" She said, "Mr Churchill, you, sir, are drunk!!"
And THEN he said, "yes, madam, but in the morning, I will be sober and you will STILL be ugly......"