Draught Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to… — Colleen Houck
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And… — Geoffrey Chaucer
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be… — John Burroughs
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. — Richard Lovelace
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… — William Osler
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said. — Emily Dickinson
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. — George Eliot
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and… — Leon Panetta
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 know… — Walt Whitman
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. — Virginia Woolf
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. — Charlotte Bronte
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 fool;… — William Shakespeare
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. — Alexandre Dumas

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