Quotes About Intoxication

O amor, o sono, as drogas e intoxicantes, são formas elementares da arte, ou, antes, de produzir o mesmo efeito que ela.

Let us intoxicate ourselves with ink , since we lack the nectar of the gods

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.

hoax played by a drunken officer.

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.

Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant—all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol, none of their drawbacks." Nothing

Basil Donovan was drunk again.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Erinnerungen, die leuchten wie ein Betrunkener oder Kranker im Regen.

Her head leaned on his shoulder, and they walked slowly. It took forever for them to be out of sight. That night I got drunker than I had ever been, and awoke the next day in some bushes halfway up the keep road.

Novel reading tends to inflame the passions, pollute the imagination, and corrupt the heart. It frequently becomes an inveterate habit, strong and fatal as that of a drunkard. In this state of intoxication, great waywardness of conduct is always sure to follow. Even when the habit is renounced, and genuine reformation takes place, the individual always suffers the cravings of former excitement.

The first purpose of alcohol is to make English your second language. You may be a Nobel prize physicist, but after nine, ten Heinekens you're speaking fluent Drunken-ese. Next thing you know, you have a friend in a headlock, "I love ya, I love ya, that's the kinda love I have for you, goddamn it."

Liquore just don't mix with love.

The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free.

Medieval Muslim society...labeled as intoxicated anyone "whose orderly speech is confused and who spills his hidden secret...

The [ hashishiyyin ] Assassins probably knew that the intoxication is a privilege reserved for those who can afford to avoid physical responsibilities. They did not go to work under the influence of the drug for the same reasons that animals in the wild, who must fight for survival, do not overdo their ingestion of intoxicating plants.

De lo que no cabía la menor duda era de que el amor te envenenaba, te embrutecía, te hacía cometer todo tipo de tonterías y desmesuras.

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them.

Another weapon of war was alcohol, accelerating in the eighteenth century.

The hot wine had filled him. Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!

No one gets drunk in order to raise their moral standards.