Drunkards Quotes - Page 6

• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Class, Alcohol, Firsts

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• The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Praise

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• Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Two, Understanding, Soul

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• Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Vices, Way, Intemperance

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.174

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

  Ernest Poole

  Towns, Dukes, Kind

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

  Alfred Adler

  Suicide, Children, Failure

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• 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

  Philosophical, Learning, Math

  John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”

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• The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the peace of God passes all understanding, and that kept my heart and mind. We put a calm front on, put out our stand daily, and carried ourselves as if nothing had happened. The great thought of my mind in these days, - and the great object of my life, - is to be like Christ. As He was in the world, so we are to be. He was in the world to manifest God; we are in the world to manifest Christ.

  James Gilmour

  Song, Heart, Understanding

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

  D. W Brogan

  Atheist, Atheism, Village

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• 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

  Real, Book, Writing

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• Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Triumph, Troops, March

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• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  Anton Chekhov

  Drinking, Vocabulary, Cynical

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, December 24, 1886.

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• The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Victory, Earth, Green

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

  Jonathan Frid

  Winter, Ontario, Bartending

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• 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

  Expression, Creative, Drug

  "Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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• There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

  Austin O'Malley

  Hell

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• A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

  Arthur Keith

  Men, One Thing

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rolling, Made, Drunkenness

  'The Rolling English Road' (1914)

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• That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

  Stanislaw Lem

  Tunes, Jukebox, Coins

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204, 1970.

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