“And with glorious triumph, they
Rode through England proud and gay,
Drunk as with intoxication
Of the wine of desolation.”

“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”

“If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.”

“Drunk with beauty, I tore down
Armfuls of blossoms.
How desolate the marred sky!”

“It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….”

“Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.”

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”

“If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.”