Richard Matheson Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

At the third cup, wine drinks the man.

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced: the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the opposite effect.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

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 . . .

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

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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.

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

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

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

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

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

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

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