Drunkenness among the parents of 38 per cent of the prisoners in a reformatory of this kind is a high and a serious percentage.

Drunkenness, my lords, is the parent of idleness; for no man can apply himself to the business of his trade, either while he is drinking, or when he is drunk.

[Wipes away his tears with the lappet of his coat and kisses MÍTYA] He told the truth then; drunkenness is no crimewell, I meanpoverty is no crime.

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his best virtue; ... he has everything that an honest man should not have; what an honest man should have, he has nothing.

To this we are inclined to reply, that no punishment is too severe for profanation; and that drunkenness is not an excuse, but an aggravation.

Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxicating liquors; it goes deeperfar deeper.

Dropsy, palsy, and the whole train of nervous complaints, are common enough; but then, drunkenness is the vice par excellence of the lower orders; and the better class of settlers have not learned those habits of temperance which are suited to the climate of Naples.

Drunkenness is the failure of a man to control his thoughts.

Touching that other question the Casuists with one consent have pronounced the sober man accountable for the deeds by him in a state of drunkenness committed, because tho' the action indeed be such as he, sober, would never have committed, yet the drunkenness being an act of the will, by a moral fiction, the issues are accounted voluntary also.

Drunkenness is a sin.

Drunkenness is a vertue.

Drunkenness is the "state of being drunk with strong drink or alcoholic liquor so that the use of the faculties is materially impaired."

While drunkenness was a vice considered scarcely scandalous, the intrigues of gallantry were concealed with the most scrupulous mysterygiving evidence of at least good taste, if not of pure morality.