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Quotes About Inebriation

Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.
~ Proverb
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.
~ James Boswell
It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
~ James Clavell
The drunken man is a living corpse.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Meanwhile, as the party ascended to ever dizzier alcoholic altitudes...
~ Theodore Roszak
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
~ Thomas Becon
Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
~ Chuck Klosterman
If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
El oxígeno te coloca.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rosalia. Rosa e lia. Rosa che ha inebriato, rosa che ha confuso, rosa che ha sventato, rosa che ha rá½¹so, il mio cervello s'è mangiato.
~ Vincenzo Consolo
My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.
~ Larry McMurtry
and if I had turned myself upside down before drinking, the wine could not have gone more direct to my head.
~ Charles Dickens
She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.
~ James Joyce
Of course it was the alcohol," said Teresa. "That's the whole point of alcohol.
~ Tim Dorsey
after ingurgitating another modicum of the royal booze
~ O. Henry
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
~ Oscar Wilde
Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!
~ Crimethinc
When wine is drunk by a drunkard, that wine is revenged on the drinker. Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks, 1281
~ da Vinci Leonardo
It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe.
~ Warren Ellis
Wine in, truth out.
~ Proverb
Wine is how classy people get wasted.
~ Author Unknown