Quotes About Intoxication

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.

She looked down at him with eyes all but clouded over from pleasure. "You look like sin incarnate," she said. "There's a reason people keep sinning. Even when they know it's wrong, it feels so very right.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

with you, I'm always on the verge - feeling dizzy like looking at waves - and you, my Love, make me tipsy...

If you're not eating, not caring about your body, letting it waste away, having your mind distorted by being constantly intoxicated, you can't be a serious exerciser. You can't do it.

Whenever he was around, she'd get this look on her face, this kind of radiance. She was a beer poured too fast, her golden liquid spilling over the edge.

I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway." "I'm drunk. Drunk people tell the truth." "Like hell they do. Besides you're not that drunk." "Then dare me something." I snorted. "No, because I'm not that drunk, or stupid.

in wine, the truth

And he drank, and the more he drank the more he longed to drink, because the wine was enchanted.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Those fine september nights, when the dew dropped On my face and I licked it to get drunk.

How sweet is life after all, when the mist of a mild intoxication casts its veil over the miseries of existence.

For him life is an endless joy, a perpetual delight, a mad intoxication. Not all seems good to him, for suffering, which must often come to those he loves and to himself, cruelly contradicts his optimism. But all is beautiful to him because he walks forever in the light of spiritual truth.

Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.

because when he gets really drunk he can't really handle stairs, or at least you have a lot of warning when he does.

Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.

Now, my friends, keep you from the white and from the red, and especially from the white wine of Spain that is for sale in the streets of London. This wine of Spain creeps subtly into other wines, which are grown nearby, from which there rise such fumes to the head that, when a man has drunk three draughts and thinks he is at home in London, he is in Spain, right at the town of Lepe—not in La Rochelle, nor at Bordeaux town—and then will he drunkenly say, "Samson, Samson!

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

You're like a tipsy man as thinks everybody's had too much but himself.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

The "delirium tremens" of alcoholic drunkards has unmistakable symptoms, but that of those intoxicated with theories is easily confused with genius.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.