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Quotes About Drunk

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.
~ Greg Benson
Who but a drunk, I wonder looking back, could sit on the porch alone and get in an argument?)
~ Mary Karr
He sifted into Elaine's, drunk, Southern and insulting, but was ignored.
~ Barry Hannah
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
~ Barry Hughart
God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's hard to hear a small voice clearly if you're shitass drunk most of the time.
~ Stephen King
Reality was a drunk buying a lottery ticket, cashing out to the tune of seventy million dollars, and splitting it with his favorite barmaid. A little girl emerging alive from a well in Texas where she'd been trapped for six days. A college boy falling from a fifth-floor in Cancun and only breaking his wrist. Reality was Ralph.
~ Stephen King
A real drunk is only int'rested in two things: puttin paid to the jug in the hand, and huntin for the one still in the bush.
~ Stephen King
I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.
~ Kenny Chesney
I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.
~ Jonny Steinberg
They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.
~ Jordan Belfort
But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.
~ Jordan Belfort
Every year, on the Emperor's birthday, he makes a resolution to begin a new life and not get into debt. And so he gets drunk. And comes home late at night, stands in the kitchen with drawn sword, and commands an entire regiment. The pots are platoons, the teacups are units, the plates are companies. Simon Demant is a colonel, a colonel in the service of Franz Joseph I.
~ Joseph Roth
All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, of Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.
~ H.L. Mencken
The other: "Oh my God, we were like so wasted." "From beer?" "Beer and shots, yeah." "How did you get home?" "Randy drove." At the top of the stairs, Myron stiffened.
~ Harlan Coben
We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
~ Daniel Craig
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
We all know the kinds of short-term states we can enter that can compromise our empathy. These include being drunk, tired, impatient, or stressed, during which we might say or do the wrong thing to someone else and later regret it. The feeling of regret is a sign of our empathy circuit coming back on, but the fact that we say or do the wrong thing is nevertheless—at that moment—a fluctuation in our empathy circuit.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
~ Rumi
Your Majesty, you just- Costis stopped. Just what? the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. Cat got your tongue? Your Majesty, you are drunk, Costis pleaded. I am. What's your excuse?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Do you know who wins battles, boy?" "We do, Father." "The side that is least drunk," he said, and then, after a pause, "but it helps to be drunk." "Why?" "Because a shield wall is an awful place." He gazed into the fire. "I have been in six shield walls," he went on, "and prayed every time it would be the last.
~ Bernard Cornwell