Intoxication Quotes

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Diogenes

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Florence Nightingale

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

Oscar Wilde

Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation

Lord Byron

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

John Dryden

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Andre Malraux