Cups Quote by Tanith Lee

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself…

— Emily Dickinson

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

— Homer

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

— Abraham Verghese

“Wine, like sex, was an immanent divine force, and the wash of its warm ecstasy was experienced as a communion with Dionysus. It is…

— Kyle Harper

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

— Kay Boyle

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

— Charles Woodson

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

— Hippocrates

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor…

— Alexandre Dumas

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and…

— Charlotte Bronte

“And once again the Rewarder and the Punisher stalk off, struggling to understand why knowing the code behind the wine does not diminish its…

— David Eagleman

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

— Sarah Hall

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

— Graham Greene