Drunkenness Quotes: top 99 famous quotes about Drunkenness

Drunkenness Quotes & Sayings

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

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals. — Anonymous

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

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

Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain

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

Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us. — Gilles Deleuze

The only truth left is my drunkenness, my sex, and my art. — Christopher Bram

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. — Francis Bacon

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. — Margaret Of Valois

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. — Anton Chekhov

[Arthur]
"Er ... Just how much did you have to drink?"
Merlin frowned at Arthur ... Both of him. — FayJay

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

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

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. — Diana Wynne Jones

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca The Younger

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. — King James I

Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness. — Meg Wolitzer

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

Whoever said that a drunk mind speaks sober thoughts...was clearly still drunk off their ass.

-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain — Ashley Jade

The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution. — Steven Erikson

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race ... Alcohol is a killer, a murderer. — Billy Graham

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. — Seneca The Younger

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. — Seneca The Younger

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. — William James

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness. — Fernando Pessoa

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks. — Criss Jami

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

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. — Jim Carrey

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions. — Leslie Jamison

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. — Oscar Wilde

Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey, — Matthew Quick

(Mason) took a swig of his drink and shuddered. 'Whoa - little too strong there bartender.' He scrunched his face. 'Oh shit, I am the bartender. — Martin Fillmore Clark

It's the drunkenness of all the new things that can be. — Michael Paterniti

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. — Andre Gide

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. — Erasmus Darwin

They never taste who always drink. — Matt Prior

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler

The only proper intoxication is conversation. — Oscar Wilde

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. — Robert South

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. — Seneca The Younger

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. — Dean Martin

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

It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits. — James Clavell

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm not drunk, just a little stoned. — Gerard Way

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca The Younger

Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto. — P.G. Wodehouse

This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman. — Dorothy Parker

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

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

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. — Thornton Wilder

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace

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

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

I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard. — Hannah Moskowitz

Isn't ignorance bliss?" "Ignorance is drunkenness, — Ella James

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil

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

[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. — Rebecca West

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true. — Nora Roberts

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes

And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone. — Crystal Woods

The shot glass is half drunk. — Brian Spellman

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness — Seneca.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was. — Rumi

Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations. — Terry Pratchett

You were just supposed to be a one night stand but you poked my eye, and kissed me sweet and listened to my car. Now, I kinda wanna keep you. — Lola Stark

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? — Terry Pratchett

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good. — Mike Mills

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. — Bertrand Russell

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness? — Jonathan Stroud

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. — Rembrandt

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. — Bob Marley

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. — William Kitchiner

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. — William Henry Irwin

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I — Henry David Thoreau

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness. — Charles Bukowski

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain

Lead's erasing then vanishing
Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned
Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy — Criss Jami

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. — Gail Carriger

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. — Marguerite Duras

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints ... — John Smith

If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery. — Christopher Hitchens

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. — William Penn

He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits. — Lady Augusta Gregory