Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.

“This Boulatruelle was a man in bad odour with the people of the neighbourhood; he was too respectful, too humble, prompt to doff his…

— Victor Hugo

“A drunkard never walks where he can fly. Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

— Horace

“Headaches are for sloths as hangovers for drunks.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“I looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels in which…

— Richard Wright

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

— Rumi

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

— Arthur Keith

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomesa second time a child.

— Plato

There is nothing more stubborn than a drunkard trying to convince you he is not.

— Vikrant Parsai

“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

— John Muir

“Your son is a drunkard,” she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger’s breath. “Following in his father’s footsteps, I see,” she…

— Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

— Steven Morrissey

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

— Austin O'Malley

“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he recounts a…

— Théophile Gautier