drunk quotes

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

- AlbenWilliam Barkley
Recalled on his death, 30  Apr1956.

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 5:18.

A good writer isnot, per se, a good bookcritic.No more so than a good drunk is automaticallya good bartender.

-Jim Bishop
  In the NewYork Journal- American, 26 Nov.

A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vicesmay be committed verygenteelly: a manmay debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cardsgenteelly.

-James Boswell
  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2, entry for 6  Apr.

'My country right or wrong', is a thing that no patriot would thinkof saying except in a desperate case.It is like saying,'My mother, drunkor sober'. See Decatur 258:8.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
The Defendant,'Defence of Patriotism'.

It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir!

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Rev Mr Stiggins. Pickwick Papers, ch.33.

Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.

-John Dryden
  Cymon and Iphigenia, l.407^8.

Often drunk, and seldom sober

-Thomas Fuller
US  screenwriter.  His  credits  include Shanghai  Express  (1932), Mutiny  on  the Bounty  (1935), To  Have  and  Have  Not  (1945)  and The Big Sleep (1946).

He was getting over a four-day drunk, and I was getting over a 4-year marriage.

- Lillian Florence Hellman
  On meeting Dashiell Hammett. In the Christian Science Monitor,13 Oct.

Thisgreat College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Speech on taking up the Chair of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 24  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Recessional'.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

- Andrew Lang
  Speech. Quoted in  Alan L Mackay  The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

The Emperor Caligula 's Habits were somewhat irrigula. When he sat down to lunch He got drunk at onch.

- Robert Paton Longden
Quoted and first published in  Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse (1952),'Potted Biography'.

Human temperaments are too diverse; we can never agree how drunk we like our art to be.

- F(rank) L(awrence) Lucas
Literature and Psychology, ch.10.

Of course I'm drunkyou don't really expect me to teach this stuff when I'm sober.

-Willy (William) Russell
  Educating Rita.

   The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lady of the Lake, canto1, stanza1.

But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

- SirJ(ohn) C(ollings) Squire
  'Ballade of Soporific Absorption'.

Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Disillusionment ofTen O'Clock'.

For my part, I will have only those glorious manly pleasures of being very drunk and very slovenly.

-William Wycherley
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.