Disgraceful Quote by Catherine Helen Spence

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious;…

— Willa Cather

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

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

— Walter Raleigh

“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

“There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing.…

— Haruki Murakami

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

— William Butler Yeats

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

— Sarah Hall

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

— H. L. Mencken