Drunkenness Quotes · Page 4

“Isn’t ignorance bliss?” “Ignorance is drunkenness,”

— Ella James

“Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.”

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Charles Bukowski

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”

— Anthony Liccione

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

“And even though the drunkenness of love Has ruined me, My being’s built upon those ruins for Eternity”

— Hafez

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

— Rumi

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

— William Shakespeare

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…

— Saint Augustine

“All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say,…

— Paul Gascoigne

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Horace

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,…

— J. G. Ballard

Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the…

— Steven Pressfield

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it…

— Simon Heffer

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,…

— John Selden

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating…

— Agnes Repplier

Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,…

— Omar Khayyam

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not…

— Augusta Jane Evans

Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for…

— Ray Bradbury

“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying…

— James Jones

“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —…

— Kamand Kojouri

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals…

— William Penn

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

— Francis Quarles

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank…

— W. C. Fields

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

— Jonathan Swift

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

— Adolphus Busch

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

— Erasmus Darwin

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

— Crimethinc

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ben Okri

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

— Georges Seurat

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

— Henry David Thoreau