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Quotes About Revelry

A hob played a lute strung with another reveler's hair.
~ Holly Black
Goblins and grigs, pixies and elves all cavort in endless intertwined circle dances. Honey wine flows freely from horns, and tables are stacked with ripe cherries, gooseberries, pomegranates, and plums.
~ Holly Black
Cardan, I hope your brother won't be angry. I'm afraid I may have set one of the guests on fire.
~ Holly Black
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
~ Homer
I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
~ Homer
He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet
~ Honore de Balzac
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine. A splendid night it was.... In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed, But at last drunkenness overtook us.
~ Li Bai
Champagne is never a mistake.
~ Liane Moriarty
There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.
~ Liane Moriarty
I always prefer socializing at night-it is implicitly more wanton
~ Lionel Shriver
She tries to imagine what he must have looked like reeling into a hotel at four in the morning, his bright red hair awry, breathing the putrid breath of a long night of alcohol and rich foods into the receptionist's face, before collapsing into a hotel bed and snoring violently in an empty room.
~ Lisa Jewell
May there be rivers of margaritas flowing through the valleys of heaven.
~ Lisa Jewell
Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?
~ Lisa Kleypas
Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell
~ Jennifer Crusie
Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.
~ Ray Davies
watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold for the traditional outdoor countdown. It seemed as if every city resident, young and old,
~ Unknown
So tonight I'm, pursuing more commercial joys around the bedpost. And I plan to get drunk as a skunk.
~ Unknown
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
~ Dorothy Parker
Finally, and almost simultaneously, the children discovered what it was like to be drunk. "Do they like doing this?" gasped Roger, after vomiting copiously. "Yes," said Lyra, in the same condition. "And so do I," she added stubbornly. Lyra
~ Philip Pullman
Get shitfaced, then face the shit.
~ David Levithan
Two hours later you might take the room for a battlefield after the fight. Broken glasses, serviettes crumpled and torn to rags lie strewn about among the nauseous-looking remnants of food on the dishes. There is an uproar that stuns you, jesting toasts, a fire of witticisms and bad jokes; faces are empurpled, eyes inflamed and expressionless, unintentional confidences tell you the whole truth.
~ Honore de Balzac
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
~ Horace
O nights and feasts of the gods!
~ Horace