| Author |
Quotes |
| Henry Fielding | Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. |
| Laertius Diogenes | He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. |
| Matthew Prior | In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul. To the late revel, and protracted feast, Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest. |
| William R Alger | Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. |
| George Herbert | He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself, all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. |
| George Herbert | Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body, must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure? |
| Horatius Flaccus | What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore To its very core! |
| John Dryden | Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. |
| William Shakespeare | O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! |
| William Shakespeare | In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. |
| William Shakespeare | Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. |
| William Shakespeare | In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee, and now, in madness, Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts, Upon malicious knavery does thou come To start my quiet. |
| William Shakespeare | I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking, So full of valor that they smote the air For breathing in their faces, beat the ground, For kissing of their feet, yet always bending Towards their project. |
| William Shakespeare | What's a drunken man like, fool? Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him. |
| William Cowper | All learned, and all drunk! |
| William Cowper | Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. |
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