Drinking Quote by Alice Thomas Ellis

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation…

— Patrick deWitt

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— Anonymous

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

— D. H. Lawrence

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

— Nathanael West

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

— A. E. Housman

“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create…

— Henry Fielding

“It’s difficult to have a conversation with someone who is drinking and getting gradually more inebriated when you are completely sober. It also creates…

— Jake Remington

Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when…

— Ken Kesey

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Ben Okri