Tipsy Quotes

• Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Midnight, Revelry

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.186, Pearson Education

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• Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Want, Hips, Break

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

  Callan McAuliffe

  People, Sound, Littles

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• I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, Tired, Thinking

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• It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Believe, Night, Men

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• When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Champion

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• I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.

  Jessica Shirvington

  My Birthday, Want

  Jessica Shirvington (2011). “Embrace”, p.52, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena) Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grace, Pops, Tarts

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• Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.

  Michael Sims

  Morning, Moving, Comedian

  Michael Sims (2008). “Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day”, p.74, Penguin

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• French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Prose Poetry, Use

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Holiday, Knowing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Giving, Glee, Bottles

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• The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Mind, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

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