Beast Quote by Charles Dickens

“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The medicine-man, having given him the once-over, had ordered him to abstain from all alcoholic liquids, and in addition to tool down the hill…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of…

— Leslie H. Whitten Jr

“One man's poison is another's elixir.”

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

— Craig Briggs

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Dr. Philbosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and life beyond,…

— André Aciman

“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I never wanted…

— Hwee Hwee Tan

“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of…

— Knut Hamsun

“The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I”

— Mary Stewart

“I figure heaven will be a scratch-and-sniff sort of place, and one of my first requests will be the Driftwood in its prime, while…

— Haven Kimmel