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Quotes About Drunk

You're so drunk you might shoot off your nipple, and then where would you be? --Dolly Nippleless. Without a nipple. Bosom with no nipple. -Ariel Wish List by Fern Michaels
~ Fern Michaels
My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
As with all tragedies, the real tragedy of my life is just an irony of Fate. I reject life because it is a prison sentence, I reject dreams as being a vulgar form of escape. Yet I live the most sordid and ordinary of real lives and the most intense and constant of dream lives. I'm like a slave who gets drunk during his rest hour - two miseries inhabiting one body.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.
~ Flann O'Brien
And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them. And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk.
~ Robert Rankin
Basil Donovan was drunk again.
~ Robert Silverberg
It had started to worry me that if I wasn't careful my meekness could become a habit, a tic, something hardwired that my mannerisms would continue to express throughout my life regardless of my efforts - the way a drunk who, though in the wagon, still staggers and slurs like a drunk.
~ Lorrie Moore
He frowned and tutted as he swabbed the vomit from the man's robes, and transferred his irritation to Pelagia's goat, which had entered the room and leapt up onto the table. 'Stupid brute' he shouted at it, and it looked at him impudently with its slotted eyes, as if to say, 'I, at least, am not drunk. I am merely mischievous.
~ Louis de Bernieres
He frowned and tutted as he swabbed the vomit from the man's robes, and transferred his irritation to Pelagia's goat, which had entered the room and leapt up onto the table. 'Stupid brute,' he shouted at it, and it looked at him impudently with its slotted eyes, as if to say, 'I, at least, am not drunk. I am merely mischievous.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I—drunk! said Caderousse; well that's a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Pere Pamphile, more wine! and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;
~ Alexandre Dumas
Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There is a sort of American who, instead of going to dance joyously in the public square in his leisure moments, as people of his profession continue to do in a great part of Europe, goes off alone to the depth of his home to drink. This man enjoys two pleasures at once: he dreams of his trade and gets drunk decently within the family home.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Are you drunk?' 'It's the afternoon, isn't it? I try always to be drunk by now. Once you start a job you should give it your best.
~ Joe Abercrombie
the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
~ Joe Abercrombie
And then Ardee herself was so much more complicated in person than she had been as a silent memory. Nine parts witty, clever, fearless, attractive. One part a mean and destructive drunk. Every moment with her was a lottery, but perhaps it was that sense of danger that struck the sparks when they touched, made his skin tingle and his mouth go dry . . .
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm no drunk," croaked Cosca. "I simply like the taste of wine. So much so that I have to drink some every few hours or become violently ill." He clung to his fork while the room swayed around him, fixed his aching smile while they chuckled away. He hoped they enjoyed their laughter while they could, because Nicomo Cosca always laughed last. Provided he wasn't being sick, of course.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Can there be a more miserable occupation than getting drunk on one's own? Wine can keep a happy man happy, on occasion. A sad one it always makes worse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
~ Joe E. Lewis