Quotes About Intoxication

It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.

She liked red wine but had no head for it and after two glasses became a different person, giggling, gesticulating, talking without stopping, interrupting others, and, always, wanting to dance.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.

Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.

Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.

There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight.

but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47

I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible.

By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.

The conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

She was down the street and around the corner when she realized she hadn't put anything on besides the jacket and her boots. She was tramping around greater Denver at two in the morning in her faded pink panties. At least she had remembered the whiskey.

When wine goes in strange things come out.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

He knew that to secure his bureau's future, he needed a high-profile victory, over intoxication and over the blacks, and so he turned back to Billie Holiday.

Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.

As soon as plants began to be eaten by animals for the first time - way back in prehistory, before the first human took his first steps - the plants evolved chemicals to protect themselves from being devoured and destroyed. But these chemicals could, it soon turned out, produce strange effects. In some cases, instead of poisoning the plant's predators, they - quite by accident- altered their consciousness. This is when the pleasure of getting wasted enters the history.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .