#drunkard

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#more #old #physicians #than

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#company #drunkard #i #ontario #played

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#drunkard #man #one thing #quite #temperate

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. ↗

— George Santayana

#altogether #ape #drunkard #human #irrational

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#drunkard #first #first class #had #i

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much. ↗

— Bon Scott

#drunkard #i #much #special #too

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

#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

#best #better #drunkard #ever #preached