Drunkard Quotes

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. (Henri Matisse)
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. View quote
Cyril Tourneur
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. View quote
Epictetus
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. View quote
George Santayana
I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard - even to vomiting - in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role. View quote
Robertson Davies
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? View quote
Charles Portis
The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard. View quote
Vikas Swarup
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. View quote
William Graham Sumner
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. View quote
Arthur Keith
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. View quote
Jonathan Frid
Yazid is a transgressor, a drunkard, killer of innocent people and an open sinner, we will never give our allegiances to the likes of him. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city. View quote
Thornton Wilder
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. View quote
David Ogilvy
I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much. View quote
Bon Scott
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
All which a man loves, for which he leaves everything else but that, is his god, thus the glutton and drunkard has for his idol his own flesh, the fornicator has for his idol the harlot and the greedy has for his idol silver and gold, and so the same for every other sinner. (Jesus Christ)
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. View quote
John Dos Passos
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
To beg drinks in the saloon became an obsession. Many evenings my mother would find me wandering in a daze and take me home and beat me; but the next morning, no sooner had she gone to her job than I would run to the saloon and wait for someone to take me in and buy me a drink. My mother protested tearfully to the proprietor of the saloon, who ordered me to keep out of his place. But the men-reluctant to surrender their sport-would buy me drinks anyway, letting me drink out of their flasks on the streets, urging me to repeat obscenities. I was a drunkard in my sixth year, before I had begun school. View quote
Richard Wright
What dreamest thou, drunkard, drowsy pate? Thy lust and liking is from thee gone; Thou blinkard blowboll, thou wakest too late. View quote
John Skelton