Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. – Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. – George Gordon, Lord Byron

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799