Absinthe Quotes

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. (Ernest Dowson)
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! View quote
Marie Corelli
Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. View quote
Johnny Galecki
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
...the outpourings of Elisée Reclus were ideals of the French ouvrier, diluted with absinthe, resulting in a bourgeois dream of order and inertia. Neither made a pretence of anarchy except as a momentary stage towards order and unity. Neither of them had formed any other conception of the universe than what they had inherited from the priestly class to which their minds obviously belonged. With them, as with the socialist, communist, or collectivist, the mind that followed nature had no relation. View quote
Henry Adams
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. View quote
Thomas Couture
Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period ... the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality. View quote
Remy de Gourmont