(26 quotes found)
“What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals”
Proverb
“I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.”
William Shakespeare
“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 Sibert Cather
“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”
William Penn
“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
Charles Baudelaire
“It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time.”
Rob Lowe
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
Will Durant
“Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.”
Martin Luther
“Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.”
“I've been badly used in some way and I don't want to make a fuss. It was in a drunken scrape. I'll be all right in a few days.”
John Copeland
