Quotes About Intoxication

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

I'm going to get absolutely plastered tonight, darling. i love you so much, I want to see two of you.

She dropped it in her lap, picked up a cup and proceeded to consume the entire contents of a jug of wine.

web of a drunken spider.

Diontsos]. Swoony type, long hair, bedroom eyes, cheeks like wine.

People were drunk, but on the cusp of drunken brilliance, which only ever lasted a few minutes and had to be harnessed and harvested while it could be.

Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning. "Yes, I think so." "I think so too.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down…. There was kindliness about intoxication – there was the indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

When you get drunk you don't tear anything apart except yourself.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority

and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

As the new alcohol tumbled into his stomach and warmed him, the isolated pictures began slowly to form a cinema reel of the day before.

I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

You've been drinking," she said shortly, and then added qualitatively, "a little. You know I loathe the smell of it.

It had been a gay party and different stages of sobriety were represented.

and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.

Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.

The flame of love comes burning through the flute Those who cannot hear its song are mute And cannot of intoxication sing