intoxication : noun State of a drunken person (intoxication produced by alcohol and causing disturbances in nerve adaptation and motor coordination).
Drinking, drinking, drinking, crate, cooked, vintage, picole, pistachio, pocharderie, pepper, drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness.
Quote from French dialogist Michel Audiard: " If something was to be missed, it wouldn't be the wine, it would be drunkenness ».
Quote from François Laroque in his Dictionary of Shakespeare's Love (Éditions Plon, 2016): Drunkenness: The scenes of libations or even drunkenness are frequent in the theater of -Shakespeare.
- During an exchange with his friend Horatio, Hamlet alludes to Claudius' drinking bouts at the court of Elsinore, a custom apparently well established among the Danes but which he says he disapproves of.
- During the party given in Cyprus to celebrate the victory over the Turkish fleet, Iago sings a drinking song, to try to train Cassio who is on guard and to get him drunk and to compromise him vis-à-vis the general.
- This time, it was no longer the Danes, but the English who accused him of drunkenness, knowing that at court King James I was known for his excessive drinking. In 1, on the occasion of a visit to London by his brother-in-law, King Christian IV of Denmark, the two sovereigns indulged in an orgy of drinks on board a ship of the Danish fleet, historical episode which is perhaps in the background of the famous bacchanalia scene which takes place on Pompey's ship in Antony and Cleopatra.
Quote from Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer. " They did note, however, that there was nothing in the way of drunk driving, nothing worse than death. »In Small suicides between friends.
Quote from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) " Drunkenness is the disorder of all the senses. »
Quote from the French writer, philosopher and encyclopaedist Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784):
“Drunkenness removes all glimmer of reason, it absolutely extinguishes this particle, this spark of divinity which distinguishes us from beasts; it thereby destroys all the satisfaction and the sweetness that each one should bring and receive in human society. »
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