Drunkenness Quotes

143 quotes by 116 authors

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The… — Louis MacNeice
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. — Ben Okri
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be.… — Cassandra Clare
How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood". — William Shakespeare
If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a… — Richard Kadrey
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot… — Baruch Spinoza
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped… — Mark Twain
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca the Younger
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. — Robert South
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence… — Giraldus Cambrensis
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt… — Roland Barthes
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness — Bertrand Russell
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink. — GK Chesterton

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