Lord Byron Quotes

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

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

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

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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

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

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

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

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.

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 . . .

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

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

It's not a crime to get 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.

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

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.