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Quotes About Tipsy

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
~ Callan McAuliffe
Not once they have become inoculated with creeds of this description,' sneered the chief super. 'They become intoxicated, Sir Daynes. They become tipsy with the most dangerous brand of aggrandizing delusion – political idealism. It means nothing for them to kill, and a triumph for them to die. We know these people. You had better let us handle them.
~ Alan Hunter
C. Calhoun, king of the South," I said. My brother kicked my shin to silence me. Neighbor Goad's face deepened to purple. "Come again, mother-whelp?" "He's tipsy,
~ Jane Singer
After we had drunk the sherry I bought cider for us, and we were a little tipsy as we swayed on the high stools and looked out at the rain as it fell on the fields that shot past the train. But being tipsy we did not see very much and the rain did not touch us.
~ Edna O'Brien
Snowmen tipsy from thaw and refreezing marked my progress as I rolled slowly down Hanover Street.
~ Reed Farrel Coleman
In tasting rooms I can never tell how tipsy I am. But once I'm outside, the awareness factor of my inebriation is greatly magnified. Everything looks and feels different. The surrounding flora seems to quiver. Colors are riotously iridescent. Sounds are louder; birds in the trees seem to mock you. All sense of reality is swamped. Anything out of the norm might happen!
~ Rex Pickett
Tipsy isn't a miracle wonder cat. That was always the deal: you'd get your cat back, but he'd be sort of creepy. We discussed this.
~ Jeff Strand
I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.
~ Knut Hamsun
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND (Nautical term): A reference to the sheets (ropes) of a sail becoming loosened, rendering the sail useless (drunk)
~ Jinx Schwartz
All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids. I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. Better not, I say. Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.
~ Sara Gruen
Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena) Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Midnight shout and revelry,Tipsy dance and jollity.
~ John Milton
You were half seas over.
~ Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Franklin's Drinker's Dictionary, some synonyms for drunk can be:
~ Susan Cheever
She said: "The question, gentlemen—is one of liquor; You ask for guidance—this is my reply: He says, when tipsy, he would thrash and kick her, Let's make him tipsy, gentlemen, and try!" Alexandra was not amused. She was extremely annoyed.
~ Harper Lee
I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.
~ Jessica Shirvington
People spare a minute or two relishing other people's setbacks before their own inadequacies distract them again. This is his umpteenth pint but he has a hollow leg or some sort of emptiness in himself and doesn't feel the least bit tipsy. What they take for her air of mystery is merely a side effect of her medication.
~ Colson Whitehead
Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.
~ David Sedaris