Alcohol Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

— A.J. Finn

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

— George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven…

— George Bernard Shaw

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity…

— Susan Sontag

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

— H. L. Mencken

Anesthesia before anesthesia.

— Alla

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— Al Iaquinta

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— Paul Kalanithi

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

“I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave,…

— David Sedaris

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in…

— Timothy Noah

Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved…

— Jonathan Hull