Diana Gabaldon Quotes

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

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

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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

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.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

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.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.

My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

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 . . .