Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught…

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you…

— Anonymous

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

— Emily Dickinson

For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to…

— Kevin Hearne

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

— Laurence Sterne

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a…

— William Shakespeare

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

— John Gay

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not…

— Walt Whitman

Draught excluders at the front door make a huge difference as does covering an old Chubb lock key hole. That stops the whistling wind…

— George Clarke

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

— Lord Chesterfield

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

— Agnes Repplier

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

— Virginia Woolf