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Drunk Quotes

“He don’t mean nothing; he’s always a-carryin’ on like that when he’s drunk. He’s the best naturedest old fool in Arkansaw – never hurt nobody, drunk nor sober.”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 21. Unlike Huck’s father Pap Finn, Boggs is a harmless drunk and doesn’t actually hurt anybody.

“Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me – let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 4”. Victor Frankenstein decides to tell Walton his story to warn him of the perils of ambition and pursuit of dangerous knowledge.

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

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3. Owl-eyed man in Gatsby’s show library. The library is part of Gatsby’s great facade and the great illusion – he wants people to think he is cultured and sophisticated.

If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet… Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

– Harold Brodkey

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

– George William Russell

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

– Harry Nilsson

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

– Gina Gershon

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

– Hannah More

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

– Jose Bergamin

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

– Isaac Asimov

If you’re stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don’t be dumb. If you’re going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home – which I did a lot of.

– Jason Bateman

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

– Joe E. Lewis

Isn’t there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn’t there a drunk Tweeting danger?

– Julianna Margulies

When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

– Johnny Depp

Everyone’s drunk on the term ‘blog.’

– Jason Calacanis

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

– Charlie Chaplin

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

– Joe E. Lewis

When you’re drunk, you always think you’re not. If you even drink at all don’t get behind the wheel.

– Bam Margera

I don’t drink, and I don’t smoke. It’s a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

– Ashley Tisdale

When I first got my driver’s license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

– Amy Heckerling

I don’t like tea! Never have, never drunk it.

– Catherine Tate

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.

– Ashwin Sanghi

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

– Ambrose Bierce

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

– Charles Darwin

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

– Bobby Moynihan

Well it’s hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

– Adam Garcia

I don’t drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don’t want to be that person anymore.

– Chester Bennington

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

– Bette Midler

I’m like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

– Archie Moore

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