Drunkenness Quotes - Page 6

• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Lying, Emotional

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

  Robert South

  Passion, Mind

  Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.5

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• [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Retirement, Ends, Dangerous

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• Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

  William Kitchiner

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Kitchiner, Luigi Cornaro (1847). “Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...”, p.173

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• [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

  Rebecca West

  Cute, Sick, Made

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• When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Mean, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

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• Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

  Simon Heffer

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Mind

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

  Hermann Adler

  Absence, Source, Strife

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Kind, Virtue

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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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• Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

  Plutarch

  Talking, Endless

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Mean, Play

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

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• The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Military, Ignorance, Discipline

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Iron

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• I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Degrees, Sober

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

  Robert Benchley

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

  King James I

  Roots, Branches, Sin

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• Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
  Of man's wit and his discretion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Wit, Discretion

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