Drunkenness Quotes

143 quotes by 116 authors

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
Of course one should not drink much, but often. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established… — Frederic Farrar
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. — Andre Gide
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes? — Henry David Thoreau
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others,… — Robin Williams
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to… — Fernando Pessoa
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. — Unknown Author
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already… — Anton Chekhov
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. — Vincent Van Gogh

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