Draught Quote by James Fitzjames Stephen

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

— Cornelia Funke

“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create…

— Henry Fielding

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through…

— Bible

“The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station;…

— Charles Dickens

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation…

— Peter De Vries

Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

— Bertrand Russell

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but…

— Walter Raleigh

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for…

— Jeremy Taylor

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle.…

— Georges Bataille