I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my…

“Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.”

— Paul Gauguin

“It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse,…

— Aleister Crowley

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

— Oscar Wilde

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Dead bodies plus a hit of absinthe are really the best cure for that insane little man.”

— Michelle Gable

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

— Ernest Dowson

“Absinthe is legal today in Europe, the United States, and many places around the world. Some governments regulate the amount of thujone that may…

— Amy Stewart

“one can no longer distinguish between history and reality after the absinthe goes in the punch.”

— Beatriz Williams

“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing…

— Alfred Jarry

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

— Oscar Wilde

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,…

— Jack Osbourne

“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in…

— Peter Ackroyd

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.…

— Aleister Crowley