Bacchus Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon…
— Donald C. Peattie
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the…
— John Dryden
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
— Robert Burns
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
— Emile Verhaeren
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Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
— D. H. Lawrence
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In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
— Homer
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Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course,…
— Charlaine Harris
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Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.
— Rick Riordan
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Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason
— Rick Riordan
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Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason…
— Rick Riordan
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The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus
— Rick Riordan
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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no…
— Horace
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
— Thomas Fuller
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Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure
— John Dryden
Who Wrote These Bacchus Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Bacchus Quotes as follows: