Drunkenness Quotes - Page 9

• Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Country, Lynching, Civilization

  "Reconstruction and Africa" (1919)

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• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Foolish Man

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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• What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

  Horace

  Art, Secret, Mind

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• Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Health, Addiction, Progress

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.219, Health Research Books

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• Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Home, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects, of all officers, and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Army

  George Washington, Thomas Francis Bayard (1775). “Specimen pages of a proposed publication of the papers of Washington, Franklin, etc”, p.14

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• That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Drunk, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Clubs, Camaraderie, Wells

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Sobriety, Alcohol

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• Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Food, Perspective

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.78, University of Georgia Press

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• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Grateful, Forever, Good Man

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• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Drinking, Beer

  The Long Goodbye ch. 4 (1953)

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• There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

  Mike Mills

  Grief

  "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

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• At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Years, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, p.45, Lulu.com

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  An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Gathering

  Jonathan Stroud (2009). “Heroes of the Valley”, p.63, Random House

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• There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

  Thornton Wilder

  Night, Remember, Equal

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

  Khalil Gibran

  Summer, Gratitude, Regret

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.114, Lulu.com

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• Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

  Anais Nin

  Judging, People, Secret

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• I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cones, My Friends, Calcifer

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wine, Eye, Would Be

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.238, e-artnow

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