113 Quotes About Drunkenness

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

I am wondering; an alcoholic and a ‘craziholic’ who is the greater ‘holic’? In other words, the dizziness of drunkenness and the dazedness of madness, which is the greater ‘ness’?