Quotes About Intoxication

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

Her persuasive kisses were hard, deep, and intoxicating.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Poetry staggers amongst stars, drunk on the night.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles

Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers.

Iluminada por el rojizo resplandor de la hoguera y a través del confuso velo que la embriaguez había puesto delante de su vista, parecíale que la marmórea imagen se transformaba a veces en una mujer real; parecíale que entreabría los labios como murmurando una oración;

I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

It was surprising how easy it was to think about the unthinkable if you'd had a few glasses of wine on a spring night.

Have you ever had one of those intoxicated night and BAM! You're stuck with this problem.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.

He doesn't know what he's saying. Taking a little more than is good for him. Absinthe, the greeneyed monster. I know him. He's a gentleman, a poet. It's alright.

she had even witnessed in the home circle deeds of violence caused by intemperance and had seen her own father, a prey to the fumes of intoxication, forget himself completely for if there was one thing of all things that Gerty knew it was the man who lifts his hand to a woman save in the way of kindness deserves to be branded as the lowest of the low.

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober." If you're a souse, try to refute a statement like that.

A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable's blood on my knuckles and I swore I could taste whiskey surging out of my stomach into my throat, like an old friend who has come back in a time of need.

Without prompting, he said, "Maybe we don't need any pharmaceutical help to have fun anymore. I'm not sure I'll ever say the sentence 'It's not really a party until the cops show up' again.

and almost overdosed on icy-cold cans of soda.

When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.