Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

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

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

The important thing is to be drunk.

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.