Drunkenness Quotes

143 Drunkenness quotes by 116 unique authors

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
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. — Samuel Beckett
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. — Jim Carrey
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the… — Freya Stark
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. — Leonard Cohen
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. — Robert Henri
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many… — James Taylor
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose… — Winslow Homer
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell… — Michael Moriarty
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching… — Edgar Wilson Nye
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 Ego. It's the… — Steven Pressfield
Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying… — Amy Poehler
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console. — Georges Seurat
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that… — Wyndham Lewis
In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I… — Francesco Clemente
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it… — Charles Caleb Colton

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