Respect Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“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

“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how…

— Nick Flynn

“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all…

— James Crumley

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Lilith Saintcrow

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain…

— Martin Luther

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

— Samuel Johnson