Rachel Joyce Quotes

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

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.

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

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare is the time.

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

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

Somehow I always get stronger when I'm on my second drink