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Quotes About Intoxication

Se sentía como si volara, o como si soñara; como si hubiera dado un enorme trago de vodka.
~ Ken Follett
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
~ james francis
The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.
~ Nezahualcóyotl
I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
~ Oliver Reed
Potations pottle deep.
~ William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
~ William Shakespeare
One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.
~ William Shakespeare
It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
~ William Shakespeare
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on).
~ Wyndham Lewis
I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion then she lies.
~ Wystan Hugh Auden
I had never dated someone who wanted to be with me all the time, like he did. He seemed to be attentive to everything about me, noticing what I liked and didn't like, buying me presents. His ambitious, fiery spirit was intoxicating. However, like a drunk person, I was blind to the truth.
~ David R. Johnson
New lovers tend to "lose their minds" and do all sorts of crazy things in the heat of the moment. One study showed that new lovers' brains have a lot in common with people on cocaine. Dopamine is sometimes called the "drug of desire." Too much dopamine, from being "high with excitement
~ David Rock
that on any given night, an average of five hundred teenagers are taken to hospital emergency rooms for alcohol poisoning or other effects of binge drinking.
~ David Sheff
Welcome to Undisclosed. Dreams Interpreted for Beer.
~ David Wong
light-headed, my body trembling from shoes to shoulders in random spells, like I swallowed a vibrator. It's always like this when I'm on the sauce. I dosed six hours ago.
~ David Wong
indulged in excess in the flowing bowl"—a polite term, in those days, for drunkenness.
~ Dean Jobb
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
~ Dean Martin
So do I, Rip," Stoker put in. "You were rat-arsed and no doubt made some highly vulgar observations which so inflamed Merry that he came round at the first opportunity to see Miss Speedwell for himself. He as much as insinuated she was my mistress," he said flatly.
~ Deanna Raybourn
It is difficult to feel things very strongly in a world wherein most of the time, the majority seem to be intoxicated and often senseless.
~ C. JoyBell C.
se puede estar bebido de tantas formas como se puede estar sobrio.
~ Javier Marías
wilderness is a ferocious intoxication which sweeps over your senses with rinsing vitality, leaving you stripped to the vivid, your senses rubbed until they shine. It is an untouched place which touches you deeply and its aftermath - when landscape becomes innerscape - leaves you elated, awed and changed utterly. Forget the lullaby balm of nature tame as a well-fed lawn, here nature has a lean and violent, waking grandeur which will not let you sleep …
~ Jay Griffiths
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
~ Jean Dubuffet