Effects of Alcohol

“Alcohol loosens inhibitions, leading people to act impulsively and make mistakes, but it cannot wash away problems.”
– Chevy Stevens

“Explanations, like medicines, go down better with a liquid refreshment.”
– Deborah Harkness

“Willpower is an illusion caused by our ignorance of the reasons compelling us to want. What drives us is not us but the myriad cells, unknown to us, unknown to one another, and unaware of us, from which our organism is constructed. Their unceasing activity generates countless currents, which we call our passions, thoughts, joys, sufferings, desires, worries, and will. We think we are masters of ourselves, yet just one drop of alcohol can excite and then numb those elements through which we feel and want.”
– Anatole France

“Your head will hurt too when others get drunk.”
– Mikhail Sholokhov

“Drinking brings happiness, even if alcohol is an enemy that sometimes steals one’s reason.”
– Marc Olden

“Alcohol doesn’t change people’s character; it only brings their hidden traits to the surface.”
– Jennifer Blake

“Drinking brings out what lies deep in the soul. What’s in a sober man’s mind is on a drunk man’s tongue.”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“A drunk man doesn’t lie; what’s in his heart is on his tongue.”
– Nikolai Gogol

“Drunkenness doesn’t create flaws; it only reveals them. A person’s true personality shows when they are drunk.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“There’s always a chance that a lady’s alcohol consumption and poor judgment will lead to a romantic evening.”
– The Big Bang Theory (TV show)

“Alcohol kills, dulls, and leads to misery.”
– Unknown

“He started drinking to endure his circumstances, which only made them more unbearable.”
– R.D. Laing

“Whiskey lets a man lay his head down at night, even when he hates himself for what he’s done on command.”
– Deborah Harkness

“Drink moderately: neither too sober nor too drunk. Those who drink excessively lose control of their tongue and no longer command their mind.”
– Theognis

“When the head is clear, the hand is steadier.”
– Ryan Holiday

“A woman becomes coarse from drinking. Alcohol coarsens women.”
– Ring Lardner

“Some of us always feel like we’ve done something wrong, like we are wrong. We’re afraid we’ll be punished for who we are deep down. We hide and drink because it helps us feel like we can be ourselves without fear. But we punish ourselves with it. The things we want least always seem to find us.”
– Tommy Orange

“Alcohol is an interesting thing. Drinking with a noble person makes us feel nobler. Drinking with a vile person drags us down to their level.”
– The King Loves (TV show)

“The more I drink, the more I feel that I drink to suffer. I’m not drinking to celebrate; I’m drinking to feel pain. I drink because I want to suffer deeply.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don’t drink. It’s not my thing. I feel fine without it.”
– Oscar Levant

“A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman does so after four kisses.”
– H.L. Mencken

“Hangovers aren’t caused by alcohol; they’re caused by the people you drink with.”
– Gabriel García Márquez

“Food makes people quiet; alcohol makes them talkative.”
– Macrobius

“Whiskey sometimes helps birth wise thoughts.”
– Leslie L. Lawrence

“When this glass empties, all my troubles sink into it.”
– Unknown

“I’ve never thought much of inspiration drawn from alcohol. In fact, I have a superstitious belief that any artificial stimulation dulls one’s clarity while working.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“Zeus gave us wine to drive away our sorrows.”
– Alcaeus

“In wine, there is truth.”
– Pliny the Elder (credited proverb)

“Alcohol has a way of stripping people of their true selves.”
– Dimitri Verhulst

“Alcohol elevates me. Without it, I’m just average. And I don’t want to be average. It’s hard to be.”
– Charles Bukowski

“We were given alcohol by God to loosen up. It makes men brave and women relaxed.”
– If Only (TV movie)

“Alcohol solves many problems—it just solves them temporarily.”
– James Blunt

“Deep pain is like a wound to the soul, and alcohol only keeps that wound open.”
– Ryu Murakami

“People drink to forget. Alcohol blurs the end of the night, erases good advice, and deletes any awkward incidents as we stumble home. But for those who’ve developed the skill of suppressing old memories—those haunting ones that pile up when we’re sober—alcohol removes those barriers. Instead of blessed oblivion, it brings back the nightmares.”
– Mark Lawrence

“Alcohol doesn’t bring in new traits; it just amplifies what’s already there.”
– Vavyan Fable

“Feelings can’t be killed with alcohol… or suppressed with cake either.”
– Two and a Half Men (TV show)

“Secrecy is a solid substance that dissolves in alcohol.”
– Two and a Half Men (TV show)

“Only those with spare brain cells should drink alcohol.”
– Two and a Half Men (TV show)

“Alcohol lends a new personality to the drinker.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“Alcohol isn’t the answer, but it helps you forget the question.”
– Unknown

“Alcohol kills, dulls, and forms esters with acids.”
– Unknown