Quotes About Inebriation

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

Basil Donovan was drunk again.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.

but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47

ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Wine is how classy people get wasted.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.

Drunkenness, she had discovered

What is God drunk on? Your love.

What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I've stuck my finger in.

The brandy was all drunk.

Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.

Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

because when he gets really drunk he can't really handle stairs, or at least you have a lot of warning when he does.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.