Alcohol Quote by Daphne Merkin

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

— Leigh Hunt

“The "pleasure" of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of social gatherings,…

— Ayn Rand

“Their wine was probably the best I’d ever had, and I was quickly coming to the conclusion that the creation of alcohol was probably…

— Terra Whiteman

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the…

— Barry Hannah

“Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...”

— Colin Cotterill

“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human science and…

— Adam Rogers

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

— Gillian Flynn

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early…

— Van Morrison

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also…

— Malachy McCourt

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

— Horace