Marguerite Duras Quotes

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.