Top 67 Quotes About Drunkards
#2. What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Ernest Poole
#3. Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
Aldous Huxley
#4. There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?
Lars Von Trier
#5. Thieves, drunkards, lunatics, wastrels, and whores we might all be, but there ain't a coward among us.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards ... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
Dan Wieden
#7. There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto Von Bismarck
#8. Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber
#9. The impact was so abrupt that those who were standing were suddenly hurled forward, staggering like drunkards while they tried to regain their balance.
Rob Mundle
#10. I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#11. Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
Hunter S. Thompson
#12. D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.
Alexandre Dumas
#13. The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
Ali Khamenei
#14. What do drunkards do? They ... drink ... themselves ... to ... death.
William Seabrook
#15. I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Marguerite Young
#16. There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.
George Herbert
#17. Be not among z drunkards [5] or among a gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and b slumber will clothe them with rags.
Anonymous
#18. Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How
Ian Rankin
#22. He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.
Stefan Zweig
#23. They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.
Stephen Colbert
#25. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
John Dryden
#28. But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton Wilder
#30. I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. 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
#32. All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
Mark Twain
#33. The "delirium tremens" of alcoholic drunkards has unmistakable symptoms, but that of those intoxicated with theories is easily confused with genius.
Samael Aun Weor
#34. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.
Courtney Maum
#35. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
Pat Robertson
#36. It started to rain. Fat, heavy drops of summer rain - the kind that always struck her as vaguely lewd and debauched. Little potbellied drunkards, those summer raindrops, chortling on their way to earth and crashing open with glee.
Tessa Dare
#37. A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can't do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.
Sebastian Barry
#38. There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.
Alexandre Dumas
#39. I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
#40. The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
Florence Nightingale
#41. Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
Emily Dickinson
#42. Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting, which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises, and smells!
Carlo Carra
#43. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Gautama Buddha
#44. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#45. General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of the happy past.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.
Matthias De L'Obel
#48. All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Alfred Adler
#49. I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country. Whole groups of bodies jerking out of control, falling on the floor, laughing hysterically, staggering around like drunkards Anything that cannot be found in Scripture has to be rejected outright - totally rejected,
David Wilkerson
#50. Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Thomas Willis
#51. To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
Anton Chekhov
#52. Before you there lie the Steppes, my darling - only the Steppes, the naked Steppes, the Steppes that are as bare as the palm of my hand. There there live only heartless old women and rude peasants and drunkards. There the trees have already shed their leaves. There abide but rain and cold.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.
Charles Spurgeon
#54. A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
W. H. Auden
#55. We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
Voltaire
#56. The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.
Corra May Harris
#57. Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer ... I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.
Nelson W. Aldrich
#58. God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
Otto Von Bismarck
#59. It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#60. Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.
Anne Rice
#61. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?
John Le Carre
#62. Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#63. The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
#64. A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
Plato
#67. The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.
Auliq Ice
