Drunkenness Quotes

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

They never taste who always drink.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.

Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy

He’d reached that perilous stage of being drunk enough to think himself a good dancer… but was dangerously close in tipping over to the point where he’d act like an arse

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk Iwas.

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me.

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.

At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.