Intoxication Effects Quotes

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced: the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the opposite effect.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

When you have too many beers, you become like a control freak on everything.

Jack Daniels makes us all puke.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

The important thing is to be drunk.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until it's done.

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on the edge of the mantelpiece. His eyes drifted around the room, then fixed on my face. For an instant, they blazed clear and pellucid with intelligence. "och, easy, Sassenach, If ye can stand up, you're not drunk." He let go of the mantelpiece, took a step toward me, and crumpled slowly onto the hearth, eyes blank, and a wide, sweet smile on his dreaming face.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.