Quotes About Drunkeness

#1. Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

Doris Lessing

#3. Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
(Page 194.)

Joanne Harris

#4. Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.

Theodore Roszak

#6. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Mother Teresa

#8. In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I've a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy - opium and other miserable beauties.

Roman Payne

#9. The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Richard Wagner

#10. When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Diadochos Of Photiki

#11. How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Burl Ives

#12. I'm drunk but truthful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you'll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.

Roman Payne

#14. I have the most respect for Rick. You're always going to see a Shameik Moore and Rick Famuyiwa film.

Shameik Moore

#15. Numerous studies have shown that handwriting notes is simply better for engagement, information retention, and mental health than is writing on digital devices.

David Sax

#16. Abby, I don't know who you are, but I do know that you're a remarkable woman. Come what may, I would love to meet you and thank you personally for awakening me from my stupor.

Jeff Joseph

#17. I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Gavin Rossdale

#18. Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

Tony Blair

#19. Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

Anthony Liccione

#20. The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Dag Hammarskjold

#21. Oh you dear companions
Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers
Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets
Cavalry of bridges nights livid with alcohol
The cities I've seen lived like mad women
(The Voyager)

Pierre Albert-Birot

#22. Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.

Tennessee Williams

#23. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

#24. At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

C.E. Murphy

#25. Prologue to the omen coming on
- Horatio, Hamlet

William Shakespeare

#26. To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

Joan D. Chittister

#27. The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky