Quote by David Mitchell

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment…

— Evelyn Waugh

“He was seething, drunk on his own magnificence”

— Lara Adrian

“Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.”

— Patricia Wentworth

“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of…

— George Eliot

“For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem less immediate,…

— R. Scott Bakker

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

“The collective ability of that pair to deny the most natural and laudable instincts a being may possess, and insist instead that nocturnal marauding…

— Chris Dee

“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…

— César Aira

“through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions”

— Walter Isaacson

“A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring…

— Frans G. Bengtsson