Drunkenness Quotes

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

— Seneca the Younger

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

— Adrian Rogers

“What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.”

— Anonymous

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

— Samuel Beckett

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”

— William Penn

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

— Bertrand Russell

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

— Plato

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Plutarch

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

— Henry Fielding

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

— King James I

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

— Alexander Pope

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

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

— John Smith

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

— Richard Burton

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips…

— Louis MacNeice

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular"…

— Herbert M. Shelton

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have…

— Arthur Brisbane

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone…

— Anton Chekhov

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in…

— Marsilio Ficino

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at…

— Freya Stark

“You were just supposed to be a one night stand but you poked my eye, and kissed me sweet and listened to…

— Lola Stark

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…

— Thomas Adams

The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

“On the other hand, for just as long, others have warned about its dangers. "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness," wrote Seneca…

— Charles River Editors

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army…

— George Washington

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…

— Paul Verlaine

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the…

— Victor Hugo

Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya…

— Enock Maregesi

“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades…

— Edith Hamilton

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,…

— John Locke

“I realise something. My ‘fuck it, I just want to get smashed’ moments are usually about boredom and pleasure-seeking. When I get…

— Jill Stark

“Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you…

— Charles Baudelaire

“ Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it…

— Henry David Thoreau