Rita Tushingham Quotes

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.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

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

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

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

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

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

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

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

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.