Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image ““Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!” — Steve Wiegand Copy Share Image
“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues and talk… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of… — charles baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
