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Quotes About Inebriation

I taste a liquor never brewed,From Tankards scooped in Pearl—
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Jon can barely afford enough drink to forget how poor he is, and
~ Scott Warren
By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.
~ Martin Amis
drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at all that he had left it
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You were half seas over.
~ Jonathan Swift
Una noche calurosa de mayo, cuando ya andaba a medios chiles, perdí por
~ Enrique Serna
I realised that she was early drunk, in that squall of coherence before slurred speech and clumsiness and collapse.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.
~ Bon Scott
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.
~ Elton John
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
~ Joseph Conrad
laziness-with it's inebriating effects- is the wine of the poor, and of those who wander among them
~ Etel Adnan
Numbers of men, or things which had been men, dropped to the floor and began lapping at the puddles of spilled liquor, but most remained immovable, watching the unprecedented actions of the barroom drudge and derelict.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.
~ Sheriff Grady Judd
Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.
~ Robert Burns
Like the kind of stuff folks drank in our world that made them giggly and stumbly and sometimes vomity?
~ Max Brooks
Calix meus inebrians.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Benjamin Franklin's Drinker's Dictionary, some synonyms for drunk can be:
~ Susan Cheever
When Dr. Finch pulled at his drink, Jean Louise saw his sharp brown eyes flash above the glass. That's what you tend to forget about him, she thought. He's so busy fidgeting you don't notice how closely he's watching you. He's crazy, all right, like every fox that was ever born. And he knows so much more than foxes. Gracious, I'm drunk.
~ Harper Lee
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.
~ Donald Barthelme
una maldita borracha
~ Junot Diaz