Quotes About Intoxication

I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn't quite see the street you were in, and didn't quite hear everything that was said to you. You're just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

How'd we get so drunk?" "It's a fuckin' mystery," said Rebecca, slamming a shot glass down on the table.

One of the side effects of good psychedelics is you can't remember how much you took.

Of course it was the alcohol," said Teresa. "That's the whole point of alcohol.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

You know," he laughed easily, "with all the goddam drinkin' Ah've done, Ah still can't remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.

after ingurgitating another modicum of the royal booze

No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk.

What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.

Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire.

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Wine in, truth out.

Wine is how classy people get wasted.