Draught Quotes
61 quotes by 55 authors
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I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of…
— Wilkie Collins
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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them…
— Kevin Hearne
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He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…†she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles…
— George R. R. Martin
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Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the…
— John Keats
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never…
— John Dryden
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
— Walter Raleigh
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
— Anacharsis
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as…
— Nathaniel Smith
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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
— William Empson
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It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given…
— DH Lawrence
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Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache…
— Louis LAmour
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition
— Charlotte Bronte
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...
— John Keats
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
— George Eliot
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For your information Potter, Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, a Bezoar…
— Severus Snape
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Shut the door Alec, there's a draught!
— James Bond
Who Wrote These Draught Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 61 Draught Quotes, led by these top contributors: