The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn...

Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken monster!I know: the truth is in the wine.(“The Unknown Lady”)

I am still drunk that you were here,and you were mine.And once again I stretch my hand outfor that wine;As your drunk eyes could not bestirthemselves, I tooCan’t move; as you love wine, I lovethe...

Everyone should drink of me, but I shouldn’t be drunk by everyone. I should be drunk all by myself.

My hush is lush. It’s drunk on its own greenness, just as I’m drunk on my blue silence. What would you say if I asked you to turquoise?

Don’t drive a car in the dream, else you won’t drive it on earth. Don’t wish to become, else you won’t become. Don’t associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don’t be addicted...

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people ‘the cops.’ But you know, sometimes, you’ve just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

God might have been either drunk or naughty when he was creating women.

I’ll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

A waitress goes up to Winston Churchill and says, ‘Sir, your drunk.’To which he replies, ‘I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Wetting one’s pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

Ok.. So are you goin’a let him bluetube your tweeter?

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making...

A drunk can’t follow a line of reasoning, even if it is a double white line.

To err is human. To errah is Kennedy.

It doesn’t matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that’s drunk.

I came with many knots in my heart,like the magician’s rope.You undid them all at once.I see now the splendor of the studentand that of the teacher’s art.Love and this body sit inside your presence,one...

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

You can’t win in love. But if you could, I’d be the clear victor. Vodka is also clear, and I must be drunk.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

She’ll have to sleep off the effects of the fruit. We’ll likely be here another day because of your idiocy.”The other voice said something garbled and unintelligible. I was suddenly too sleepy and light-headed to...

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

There’s nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

And sometimes drunk women aren’t raped; they just make stupid choices–and to say we deserve special treatment when we’re drunk because we’re women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I’ve found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to...

Nothing makes you forget everything as getting drunk of red wine.

Nancy Astor: “Winston, you are a drunk!”Winston Churchill: “And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

I may be drunk Miss but, in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Henry shook his head, ‘I was drunk,’ he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the...

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell...

For the celebration I got champagne flutes, even though I’m not musical. That night I felt like Mozart. He was a drunk, right?

I am enlightened.

Much better.

Jack, you’ve debauched my sloth.

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

Of course we got drunk!” Semyon said. “It’s okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that’s all for the heart.””So what’s...