You either drink alcohol or you don't; you either swill it or you don't.

Anybody can do either.

I'm not aware that either is peculiar to a gentleman.

But I know that both are peculiar to fools." Quest muttered, picking his fingers, and cast an ugly side look at the physician.
"I don't know what you just said," snapped Dr.Bailey, "but I'll tell you this: alcohol is poison and it has not--and never had--in any guise whatever, the slightest compensating value for internal use.

It isn't a food; it's a poison; it isn't a beneficial stimulant; it's a poison; it isn't an aid to digestion; it's a poison; it isn't a life saver; it's a life taker.