Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

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

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

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

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

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.

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

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

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

It's better to have a voice without alcohol in my system from the night before.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

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.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.