Quote by Charles Portis

“To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.”

— Bertrand Russell

“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.…

— Ed Duncan

“As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.”

— Teju Cole

“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting…

— Joe Abercrombie

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but…

— George R.R. Martin

“Maybe weakness in his character, or trauma from his past. Or perhaps something in the present was causing his problem. Or maybe a combination…

— Haruki Murakami

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

— Jane Austen

“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.”

— Filippo Bologna