Absinthe Quotes

• A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sunset, Glasses, Differences

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• After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Glasses, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.165, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Mad, World

  "Wormwood: A Drama of Paris".

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• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  Ethel Mumford

  Drinking, Heart, Wit

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• Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Life, Rain, Coffee

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Knives, Piano

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• I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Never Quit, Suits

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• Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Knives, Lasts

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• What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

  Aleister Crowley

  Pride, Men, Abuse

  Aleister Crowley (1994). “Absinthe: The Green Goddess”, Holmes Publishing Group

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• I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

  Ernest Dowson

  Grows, Tarts

  Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

  Paul Gauguin

  Doors, Smoking, World

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• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  Alfred Jarry

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  Jack Osbourne

  Drinking, Europe, Trying

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• Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

  Johnny Galecki

  Cereal, Healthy, Vices

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• I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

  Rob Corddry

  Drinking, Shoes, Two

  "What Happens In Vegas - Rob Corddry and Lake Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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