Alcohol Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.”

— Paul Gauguin

“I am only sipping the second glass of that "fascinating, but subtle poison, whose ravages eat men's heart and brain" that I have ever…

— Aleister Crowley

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

— Ernest Dowson

“Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.”

— Christopher Morley

“Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of…

— Thomas Ligotti

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving. No watermelon tastes red. Apropos: while waiting for a bus once, I saw open down the arm of…

— William H. Gass

“Taste is the most unexplored sense”

— Matteo Ferrara

“Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and…

— Gérard de Nerval

“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every word spoken…

— Anaïs Nin

“I sit at a café in the village and gulp down cold Amstel beer. It tastes fantastic, but not nearly as great as the…

— Haruki Murakami

It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerized by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I…

— J.A. Redmerski