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Quotes About Intoxication

I drank too much, only champagne.
~ Johnny Mathis
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
~ Raymond Chandler
I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads.
~ Raymond Chandler
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.
~ Raymond Chandler
Estás intentando emborracharte? - Por supuesto que sí. Si tengo que hablar conmigo mismo, no veo qué necesidad hay de hacerlo sobrio.
~ Richard K. Morgan
When she drew near, the rich musk of him wrapped her again: shaving soap, ale, and that delicious, darker something--- him . It might as well have been opium for what it did to the run of her thoughts.
~ Julie Anne Long
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
~ Voltaire
There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
~ Alfred de Musset
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
~ Rick Yancey
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
~ John Osborne
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
~ Charles Lamb
A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A man does not exist until he is drunk.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
~ Francis Bacon
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.
~ Patrick deWitt
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You took too much man, too much, too much.
~ Hunter S. Thompson