Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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

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

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

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

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

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

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

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

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

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.

Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

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

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.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.