Quotes about Intoxication
The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
— Isaiah 19:14
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
— Isaiah 29:9
he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.
— Dorothy Sayers
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
— Proverbs 20:1
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
— John Milton
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
— Aristotle
“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
— Jeremiah 25:27
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
— LM Montgomery
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
— William Faulkner
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
— Isaiah 51:21