Drunkenness Quotes

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Could man be drunk for ever
      With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at morning
      And lief lie down of nights.

But men at whiles are sober
      And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
      Their hands upon their hearts.”
― A.E. Housman, The Collected Poems

“The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Gone, Gone, Gone

“(Mason) took a swig of his drink and shuddered. 'Whoa - little too strong there bartender.' He scrunched his face. 'Oh shit, I am the bartender.”
― Martin Fillmore Clark, The Legal Limit

“[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol

“Lead's erasing then vanishing
Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned
Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.”
― Paul Gascoigne

“That night we camped on the shore of a flourishing green land. Around their fires, the men were tense and quiet, muffled by dread. I could hear their whispers, the wine sloshing as they passed it. No man wanted to lie awake imagining tomorrow.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Bonnie was so drunk she could hardly walk. ... I had always felt sorry for her, having to live the life she was living, never a minute’s peace. She had often told me she was happier when she had something to drink. So I did not blame her for staying drunk most of the time, if it made her feel better.”
― Blanche Caldwell Barrow, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
― Seneca

“Of course, drinking is an art, like lots of other things.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“If I drink fast, we might be able to make it...”
― Jean Koning, Quotes and Thoughts

“Ik heb een hele tijd geen borrel gedronken, zei Frits. Hoe lang niet? vroeg Joosje, die de benedenschuif van de kachel opende. Zeker in geen vier weken, zei hij.
Het is slecht, een hoop ellende komt ervan, zei de oude. Ze hield een krant opgevouwen in de hand. Het is heel ongezond, het lichaam wordt ermee verwoest.
Nou, zei Frits, dat is niet zo. Je moet niet geregeld drinken, maar eens in de paar maanden je goed bezatten, dat is gezond zeggen moderne medici. De moderne wetenschap zegt, dat het lichaam van tijd tot tijd uit zijn evenwicht gebracht moet worden, eens goed moet worden vergiftigd.
Ja, die moderne wetenschap, zei de dame. Als ik gedronken heb, zei hij, voel ik me natuurlijk lollig. De volgende dag heb ik de kater, daar is niets aan te doen. Maar de dag daarop, de derde dag, dan voel ik me goed! Het is of ik dan ben herboren.”
― Gerard Reve, De avonden

“Do not get drunk with wine, which leads to dissipation, but be filled with the holy spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In the United States, the risk that your loved one will be killed by a drunk person is nearly 50 times higher than the risk that he or she will be killed by a terrorist”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“I once saw an actor playing drunkenness—it took me a while to realize that he had put together his act taking this from one drunkard—that from the other—from another the slurred speech—from the other the movements—or the actions—or memories and with but and pieces had made a patchwork of drunkenness that didn’t correspond to any possible drinker and had no center—no truth and had been put together as if by a man who has no idea what drunkenness is and couldn’t imagine it in his head—I have to say it was mind boggling.”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only now when to stop.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only know when to stop.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“They're clinking glasses and knocking it back to their hearts' content. Tastes so good they can't stop. Ain't you heard the old saying: 'Money comes from God and the Devil collects it?' Well, the Devil's collecting his share now.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. "
"Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well."
"Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“He performed great miracles, like turning water into wine, thus making people to become spiritually drunken.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Sinless

“The stupid things you do when you’re in love are exactly the stupid things you do when you’re drunk.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“There is nothing sadder than a drunk in the rain wishing you well.”
― Edward Docx, Pravda

“Sid Dashwood! Of course. It's so great to finally meet you. This is Naina. Naina Kohli."
"Naina Kohli, the spurned ex," Naina announced grandly, and raised the glass of water the bartender handed her. "Spurned for the love of your sister. Yay, India!" She closed her eyes and made what could only be construed as a drunk person's attempt at the om sound. "Everyone's favorite yogi.”
― Sonali Dev, The Emma Project

“She’d staggered up that hill more times than she could count. The struggle was actually comforting in a way. Something to fight against, even if it was only gravity.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“In the company of drunks, a non-drinker becomes a leader.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The man of the house was at the moment something less than a man. Or perhaps he was only what any man eventually might become when guided by no hand but his own.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year