Drunkenness Quotes · Page 5

“The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution.”

— Steven Erikson

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

— Anonymous

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Francis Bacon

“Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Bertrand Russell

“In a stupor and the relative comfort of the blur of drunkenness, time goes by more quickly.”

— Daniel D. Maurer

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

— Horace

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Anais Nin

When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are…

— Walter Raleigh

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful…

— Wyndham Lewis

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for…

— Ambrose Bierce

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal.…

— James Taylor

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind…

— Anonymous

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was…

— Jane Swisshelm

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,…

— Oscar Wilde

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According…

— Anonymous

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but…

— Francis Quarles

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common…

— Joseph Addison

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…

— Roland Barthes

“What was wonderful was that even within the drunkenness of two a.m., each of you somehow recognized the more permanent worth and…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Poe’s drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature.…

— Baudelaire

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

— John Lubbock

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

— Stephen Crane

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

— Hermann Adler

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

— David Crosby

“Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.”

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Marguerite Duras

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

— FayJay

The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness.

— Marcel Desailly

“I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

— Alben W. Barkley

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

— George Meredith

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

— Saint Basil

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

— Charles Chilton Moore

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Douglas Adams

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

— Hippocrates