Quotes about Drunkenness

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A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, nev — Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good charact — Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites
The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absol — Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us. — Neil Gaiman
In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do wi — E.A.A. Wilson, Ascension Denied
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibia — Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way
While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its cate — Anthony F. Jorm
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. — Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare, Othello
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? — Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
One more drink and I'll be under the host. — Mae West
It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering — Martin Cruz Smith
Whoever said that a drunk mind speaks sober thoughts...was clearly still drunk off their ass. -Jackson 'Blame It on the — Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Pain
Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He knew the thing itself, — Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air
Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks."She didn't believe in spirits.""And what became of Henry?""Oh. From time to ti — Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived a Girl
O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me. — Forough Farrokhzad
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I s — Winston S. Churchill
Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic. — Ahmed Mostafa
We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. — Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat