Intoxication Quotes
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I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
Oscar Wilde
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
William Howard Taft
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
Douglas Jerrold
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Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
Alfred de Musset
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He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.
Charles Dickens
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The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.
Alfred de Musset
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The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.
Gerard De Nerval
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
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I do not drink alcohol at all. I do not like the state of intoxication, and I’ve never been drunk in my life.
Ornella Muti
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
Lord Byron
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
