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Quotes About Intoxication

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.
~ Mark E. Smith
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
~ Ron White
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
~ John Climacus
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
~ George Eliot
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
~ Joan Acocella
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
~ Douglas Coupland
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.
~ Taryn Plendl, In My Arms
The rag is sloshed in solvent with a psychotropic odor
~ Michael Chabon
Although it was only nine o'clock he had already gone once around the pharmacological wheel to which he'd strapped himself for the evening, stolen a tuba, and offended a transvestite; and now his companions were beginning, with delight and aplomb, to barf. It was definitely a Crabtree kind of night.
~ Michael Chabon
Aliganaya - 'the embrace during an intoxicated walk' or 'sudden arousal while driving over speed bumps
~ Michael Ondaatje
There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back.
~ Michael Pollan
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
~ George Farquhar
Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.
~ Amy Cuddy
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.
~ Donald Barthelme
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
~ Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
~ James Frey
For reasons that are still poorly understood, at depths beyond about 30 metres nitrogen becomes a powerful intoxicant. Under its influence divers had been known to offer their air hoses to passing fish or to decide to try to have a smoke break. It
~ Bill Bryson
One of the more striking features of Sweden and Norway is how much public drunkenness there is. I mean here you have two countries where you cannot buy a beer without taking out a bank loan, where successive governments have done everything in their power to make drinking not worth the cost and effort, and yet everywhere you go you see grossly intoxicated people – in stations, on park benches, in shopping centres. I don't begin to understand it
~ Bill Bryson
There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin
~ Bob Dylan
with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...
~ Bob Dylan
It occurred to her that when people were drunk they always tried to impersonate drunkards, and the drunker they were the more they overacted.
~ Boris Pasternak