D Quotes
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“Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.”
Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.”
“Drunken Humanitarian (Sonnet)
Go, get drunk, my friend!
Get so drunk with a vision unseen,
even monsoon begins to cry!
Get so drunk with an unbent cause,
even bosons bow to thy might!
Get so drunk with incorruptibility,
you emerge a walking Wardencliffe.
Get so drunk with accountability,
no Rorschach can analyze your spirit.
Get so drunk with uncontaminated justice,
every government keeps a file on you!
Get so drunk with untainted love,
conclaves convene to decipher you!
Any ape can find salvation in liquid escape,
takes a human to endure through devastation.
Any rodent of the gutter can drown in alcohol,
it takes a giant to drink the world's poison.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.”
“Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.”
Source: Killosophy
“Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.”
“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”
Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
“Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“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.)”
“Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.”
“Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.”
“Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.”
“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.”
“Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.”
Source: Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...
“Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.”
Source: Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound
“Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.”
“Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.”
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
“Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.”
“Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
“Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.”
“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.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Drunkenness of alcohol ruins life,
Drunkenness of scripture ruins society.
Drunkenness of ideology ruins the world,
Drunkenness of nationality ruins humanity.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Drunkenness of booze wears off in a day, drunkenness of sacrifice lasts through millennia.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: The Reformation
“Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.”
“Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.”
“Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.”
“Drusilla looks around for backup, but the Peacekeepers remained downstairs and Wiress isn't giving any. So there's just her and us district piglets, including Maysilee, who slaps back.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
“Drustan raked a hand through his hair and fumbled in the dark for the door. When it didn't budge, a part of him was unsurprised. Yet another part of him met the fact with a kind of glad resignation.
She wanted battle? Battle she would get. It would be a pleasure to have it out with her finally. Once he'd ripped the door from the framing, he would exact vengeance upon her wee body with gleeful abandon. No more honorable I-won't-touch-you-because-I'm-betrothed. Nay he'd touch her. Any damn place and any damn way he wanted to. As many times as he wanted to. Until she begged and whimpered beneath him. She'd been trying to drive him mad? Well, he was giving in to it. He would act like the animal she made him feel like being. The hell with Anya, the hell with duty and honor, the hell with discipline. He needed to tup. Her. Now.”
Source: Kiss of the Highlander
“Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.”
“Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Dry creek glimpsed by lightning”
“Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!”
“Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.”
“Dry snow coming down in the hills.
Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees.
A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.”
Source: Moosewood Sandhills
“Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk away now, it’s over.”
“Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.”
“Dry your tears and kick this gloomy attitude in the pants, Amelia!" I say out loud to myself because who else does a girl talk to when she's alone in the car in the middle of a mental breakdown?”
Source: When in Rome
“Dry your tears, have no fears.”
“Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.”
“Drying her eyes, Mother said to Totto-chan very slowly, "You're Japanese and Masao-chan comes from a country called Korea. But he's a child, just like you. So, Totto-chan, dear, don't ever think of people as different. Don't think, 'That person's a Japanese, or this person's a Korean.' Be nice to Masao-chan. It's so sad that some people think other people aren't nice just because they're Koreans.”
Source: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
“Drying up in conversation
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
You just sit there wishing you could still make love.”