Draught Quotes - page 2

I am vain-praise is opium, and the lip Cannot resist the fascinating draught, Though knowing its excitement is a fraud- Delirious-a mockery of fame. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. View quote
Maya Angelou
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,' said I, 'still thou art a bitter draught. View quote
Laurence Sterne
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. View quote
Anacharsis
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint. View quote
William Osler
Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. View quote
Thomas Mann
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth. View quote
John Keats
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. View quote
William Empson
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. Yes, it can even, in the twinkling of an eye, make something like a vagabond of the pedant and Philistine. Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. (Thomas Mann)