Drunkards Quote by William Graham Sumner

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon…

— William Graham Sumner

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

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair…

— Tennessee Williams

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

— Lord Byron

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

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

— William James

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

— George Jean Nathan